...the things we do for traffic and sales.
Like the old song the Things We Do For Love! lol
I agree spazlabz, it is not worth the effort to go through a painstaking task of revamping your site, just to get noticed by the search engines. And little things, that we do to bring in the traffic seems to suffice for some of us or even most of us.
Although I am not trying to walk in the rain nor the snow, a little strut down the SE lane, doesn't seem to hurt. Ideally though, it is becoming more of a benefit to get noticed by them. Especially with all the changes going on, with a lot of heavy duty SE players.
Linkster, yes, Yahoo owns Inktomi. And it did rename it's spider to "Yahoo! Slurp" and from what I am getting from many of their changes, after acquring Inktomi, they unexpectingly dropped Google search technology and come up with their own technology now known as YST or Yahoo Search Technology.
From one to two hits a day to over 40 or 50 I would say this is a hellueva change, I suspect most of you would agree. All this is to say is we are on the edge of change - is it good or bad for our industry? We can only say, with time, we will know.
And thanks for the congrats.
Nick
P.S. For further reading here is an article I dug up:
http://www.internet-explained.com/
More news or help on Yahoo's changes can be found at:
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/
http://news.google.com
As always good luck!