Search Marketing Blog by Tilak

David Eaves informed that UK based users who are trying to reach Yahoo.com now being redirected to Yahoo! UK domain.

Flyerguy a memebr of Webmaster World has also confirmed in his post that German users are also redirecting to Yahoo! German domain.

According to Barry Schwartz this has to do with Yahoo Now Showing Geo-Location Under Search Ads. Yahoo has told him that they rolled out that feature last “week with the roll out of a new “geo labels” feature.” He feels that same geo-technology was applied to this.

But in India I am still reaching www.yahoo.com domain instead of http://in.yahoo.com but last few days it is showing two search options Search Web and Search India. That wasn’t before.

If you seach with any of the option, Yahoo shows &fp_ip=IN in its search result URL. In India, www.yahoo.com is not redirecting yet but search results are fetching from Indian IP addresses.

Now Google Webmaster Tools has added 4 new languages and increased total number of languages to 26. The 4 new languages are

1. Arabic
2. Hebrew
3. Hindi
4. Thai

The already available 22 languages of Google Webmaster Tools are British English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and US English.

In High Ranking Forum, a member has noticed that Yahoo! Search Marketing Ambassador signup page is no longer accepting new members.

I didn’t find any updates from Yahoo! officials. Is Yahoo dropping Search Marketing completely? or they are dissolving the Ambassador program? or is for the time being? All speculations are moving around.

Forum members say they can still log in and see their reports. What’s going on, Yahoo?

Google announced that landing page load time evaluations or Landing Page Load Time on the Keyword Analysis Page. This factor load times will be part of ‘Quality Scores’ starting mid june.

In preparation for that launch, Google has started showing advertisers their metrics for the landing page load time for each keyword’s landing page.

Yahoo! has launched Glue pages in Yahoo! India. Glue Pages mix search results with visual information from the best sites anywhere on the Web. User can browse images, videos, articles and more all on one page.

Gopal Krishna, Head of Audience, Yahoo! India said:

Searching on Glue Pages Beta will result in an experience that promises more than just web links. Users will receive more relevant, visually appealing search results from across the Web in one topical page. The new Glue Pages Beta feature for Yahoo! India Search supports our strategy to make Yahoo! the starting point on the Internet and demonstrates our commitment to provide a compelling online search experience.