What change has Yahoo made lately?

[pucky]

So i had 25 keywords ranking on page 1 of Yahoo in the #1 position for over 6 months for a particular keyword.

All of a sudden, over the past month, i have dropped to position #48 and above, #48 being the best. Yahoo must have made some massive changes. Did they follow Googles (redhat armies) style of canning sites for some reason?

I have over 297 links to the website, the ones i can see and all pages on the site are PR3. So whats the problem?

Has anyone else noticed a drop in Yahoo like this?

 

[WickednDivine]

There has definitely been a major algorithm change at Yahoo. I've had sites at #1 on yahoo for years, and now they're almost all no where to be found.

 

[jforinfo]

Your competitor may optimize their website and compete you?

 

[pucky]

Your competitor may optimize their website and compete you?

Huh? Its highly unlikely that 48 pages of sites all of a sudden optimized their pages to get above my listing. Its got to be an algorithm update as stated by poster 2.

 

[imperial109]

I usually don't pay much attention to little Y, but the SERP checker that I use also shows Y results and I've noticed that my sites that are optimized for page one on big G have also been climbing.

One other strange thing that I've noticed with a new site that I'm pushing is the (Y dance?). Usually once a page ranks on Y it does not shift much. However, this one was supposedly sandboxed in Y for 2 days then it came back to a lower spot. Looks very similar to G.

It will be interesting to see what happens with Y, because it looks like they're trying to recapture some of their lost market.

 

[nomore]

Its almost like yahoo is a step behind google. I have some brand new almost bare sites that would have ranked 1st page top 3 or so in the old pre may google searches, and while they are 2nd page and back in google, they are all top 3 in yahoo.