Yahoo Slurp - New Version of Search Engine Crawler Released

Yahoo Slurp - New Version Set Loose

Yahoo! released a new version of its Search Crawler (Slurp) this week. It's crawling/indexing algorithm is now more efficient, consuming 25% less bandwidth "without a loss in content coverage".

Some changes to web page ranking will occur.

Notes on vBSEO

• Each search engine has its own indexing and ranking algorithm to gather content & determine the order in which it is displayed in the search engine results pages. vBSEO focuses on using SEO techniques that are common to the major search engines including Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search.

For Discussion

• Have you noticed any shuffling of your search engine positioning in Yahoo (or changes in traffic sent from Yahoo) this week?
• Have you noticed reduced Yahoo Slurp activity on your forum?

Source:
Yahoo! Search blog: Weather Report – The New Yahoo! Search Crawler (Slurp) Is Here!

I see much less in terms of crawling by yahoo now. I was getting concerned until I just now read this.

Rankings are pretty stable with yahoo still, and have been for a while now.

As for that sitemap thing, I have always had tons of problems submitting a sitemap to it. I fought with it a couple times in the pas for a long time until I would finally get it to accept the sitemap. After the second time I decided I wasn't going to go through the trouble anymore.