Yahoo! Launches New Crawler

Posted By Darren Rowse 31st of July 2006 Search Engine Optimization

If you’ve noticed any changes in the traffic coming to your blogs from Yahoo! it could be a result of their New Version of it’s Search Crawler called ‘Slurp’ – (a crawler is the bot that Search Engines send to your site to index it).

Slurp is said to be faster and more efficient and will have to visit your site less and will use less bandwidth when it does.

Have you noticed any changes?

I’m yet to do any detailed analysis but my first impression is that it’s not had much impact upon the amount of traffic Yahoo! has sent to most of my blogs – however for a couple of them I’m getting traffic from Yahoo! for the first time ever (I’ve never had much luck with Yahoo SEO to this point so this is a welcome sign.

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