Yahoo! are in the process of updating their crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms, according to a recent post on their Blog.

According to Sharad Verma from Yahoo! Search “We’ve rolled out some changes to our index with fresh web data and updates to our crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms over the last few days. We have had two updates since last November: one in December, 2008, and another in late January this year. We expect the update will be completed very soon. Throughout this process you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages in the index”.

As usual, the updates will bring mixed results for website owners, with some enjoying improved rankings, while others will see a drop in their search results.

I would recommend that you monitor your Yahoo! results over the next few days to ascertain if you are a winner or loser.

If you have experienced any changes to your Yahoo! rankings, share your experiences with us, via the comments form below.

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