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Yahoo! Webrank
According to Yahoo, "Yahoo! Web Rank" is a measure of
how popular a web page is based on the number of links pointing
at it.
When you enable the Web Rank button on the Yahoo! Companion Toolbar,
the URLs you visit will be sent to Yahoo! in order to get its Web
Rank (from 1 to 10). The info sent about the URL is anonymous and
DOES NOT include your Yahoo! ID or any personally identifiable information.
According to me, It is not like Google Pagerank in any way, Though
Yahoo says it takes links into count I feel it is not the case,
They mostly check the popularity of the site from people using their
toolbar and use that data to assign a webrank to it, This is another
good feature of yahoo to get into a direct competition with the
Big G, Google is our words,
You can turn off Web Rank at any time from the Toolbar Settings
menu (pencil icon). When disabled, URLs are no longer sent to Yahoo!.
SO how does Web rank feature work?
The Yahoo! Web Rank feature of the Yahoo! toolbar works by collecting
anonymous URL data about the page you are visiting. This anonymous
URL data is sent to the Yahoo! Companion servers, and a Yahoo! Web
Rank value( which yahoo knows already) is returned to the Yahoo!
Companion Toolbar as one measurement of the link popularity of the
Web page or URL you are visiting.
You will see a small icon on your Yahoo! Companion Toolbar displaying
the Web Rank value (on a scale of 1 to 10) of the site you are currently
visiting. Web rank is measured by the link popularity of the web
page, Mostly i feel Yahoo gives a lot of weight to sites in Dmoz
and yahoo directory, According to them Dmoz is an expert hub and
links from it is credited a lot, We have a site with about 500 backlinks
in Yahoo showing a Yahoo webrank of 0, ANother sites has only 20
links but one link is from an important category in Dmoz directory
that site has a Yahoo web rank of 4 which is really surprising,
Also the big bug I saw in the web rank feature of Yahoo is the webrank
of Google, Google has one of the most powerful backlink on the web
but Yahoo says Google's Webrank was 0, Which is a Bug in their system,
But later it was rectified and now it shows a webrank 10 for yahoo
which is a good sign, May be Future is good for Yahoo's Webrank
feature but right now it is not too much of an SEO attraction,
How do I install the Yahoo! Web Rank feature?
First you have to download the Yahoo companion toolbar from Yahoo,
When that toolbar is downloaded you have to install the Yahoo! Companion
Toolbar, then you will have the option of enabling the Web Rank
feature. If you would like to use it, choose the "Install WITH
Web Rank" button on the configuration page and the Yahoo! Web
Rank feature will be enabled during the installation of the toolbar.
Important feature of Yahoo webrank is helps in alerting the Yahoo!
Search crawler to the existence of a particular Web site or Web
page, and direct a crawler to visit that Web site or Web page for
inclusion in Yahoo! Search if it is not already in the Yahoo! Search
index. This is an important feature and helps you in possible inclusion
in the yahoo index, Yahoo crawler is the 2nd most active crawler
on the web and I feel you will have a good faith that Yahoo slurp
is triggered by this webrank feature.
