It has nearly been a week since Yahoo! dumped Google in favor of Inktomi. The following is a current update on the market and also your site’s standing in both Yahoo! and Google in terms of link popularity.
Meta Keyword Tag Back
Even though Inktomi has always indexed the Meta Keyword tag, we have advised our clients not to include it, due to no other engine indexed it. Our advice is now changing. Inktomi indexes both the Meta Keyword and Meta Description tags.
A Yahoo! representative has publicly stated: “Yahoo! Search uses the Meta Keywords tag. We did not use them at FAST or AltaVista. It is important that you make the keywords and description different (targeted) on every page. Exactly what the page is about. Having all the pages have the same keywords and description is not helpful to the search engine.”
Google Increases Index Size
In what can only be described as a publicity stunt aimed at not losing momentum for their IPO, Google announced the same day Yahoo! dumped their results that they had essentially doubled the size of their index to six billion pages. Of the hundreds of domains we track, we have not seen any domain have a significant increase in the number of pages included in the Google index. In fact, the majority of the sites we track had a reduction of the number of pages included in Google before the announced increase.
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