Clicking on link in Yahoo

May 12th, 2005, 10:28 am

Question, when I search for my website in Yahoo based on certain keywords, I find it on page 83.

If people click on the link, will it slowly move up to page 82, then 81..? I mean, does the keyword / click combination make your website move up the ranks in Yahoo / Google?

For example, I notice the link in Yahoo does not go to my site, but it goes to a Yahoo tracker then to my site. So Yahoo IS tracking who clicks on what.

Here is why I ask. I have written a program that finds my link page and position on Yahoo, based on keywords. Should I bother to extend this program to click on my own link based on those keywords to slowly move it up the list?

Thoughts?

JM

May 12th, 2005, 12:23 pm

Don't waste your time. Something like that will not improve your ranking or else everyone would be running such a script. Also, you may get yourself penalized or banned from the index for such action.

May 12th, 2005, 12:37 pm

Outside of it working or not, does clicking on it impoive the ranking in the list?

May 12th, 2005, 2:02 pm

Not a bit.

May 13th, 2005, 1:31 am

I think that this does make a difference with goggle though If the person clicking on the link is from a different ip. It shows popularity.

Might be wrong, I've haven't tried it.

May 16th, 2005, 10:57 pm

it doesnt make sense

May 17th, 2005, 12:20 am

So what you are saying is that if my site is say listed at position 9 in the SERPs and when my phrase is searched and my listing is selected move than the others my listing will not move up? I've always thought that that shows popularity over the other listings.

Is it purely up to Backlinks?

May 17th, 2005, 1:55 am

backlinks has lots to do with search engines, but consider also your current site's structure. Anothing thing, backlinks should composed of links with content related to your site to get a good rank.

lots of content related backlinks + site structure = good rank

May 17th, 2005, 2:20 am

Many people suggest having a sitemap on the site. What if we have 16 000 pages? That begins to get a little complicated. Any ideas how to structure a dynamic sitemap?

May 17th, 2005, 2:30 am

cool.. that's a big number for a site map.
why not include only the main category for your site map?

May 17th, 2005, 2:35 am

Well the thing is the most of our pages are Area, Resort then hotel specific. I created 200 subdomains and got the BL's so those subdomains now have a PR of 2. But ideally I'd like to have our hotel pages come up in the results than only our sunbdomains for a hotel specific hotel search.

May 20th, 2005, 1:28 am

If clicking on your own link moves you up in the SERPs, it must be a well-kept secret! I've never heard of this before. But who knows...maybe it's something that the search engines choose not to disclose. At any rate, it's unethical (if it works).

May 21st, 2005, 7:37 pm

Not sure if this method would work or not but if you do it you would deff. need to add proxy support. performing the same search and clicking the same links in 'x' amount of time might get your IP blocked or banned from a search engine site. So I would deff set your script or program to use proxies but as I stated before, Im not even sure if the SE's go by click...

May 21st, 2005, 7:48 pm

Well what I was thinking of doing was putting in a hidden IFRAME on my webpage, that points to the current click. Then, the IP's would be all over the place.

The first IFRAME would be search.yahoo.com?kywords

Then the next IFRAME would be clicked.yahoo.com?mydomainresult

So according to yahoo, the surfer is searching for keywords, and then clicking on my website as the result of that search.

Hmm...

May 21st, 2005, 8:04 pm

Im not sure how the SE's will react to having a dozen hidden IFrames on your page....Do a search on google for 'clicking agent'...it has multi proxy support and does everything your looking for it to do..I think that would be your safest route if you decide to go through with this