Some months ago I wrote a post about Yandex and “nofollow” attribute of the <A> tag. Yandex did not, for some obscure reason, read nofollow attribute, so any “nofollowed” link was passing just as much link juice as a direct link in the eyes of Yandex. In order to prevent unwanted links being indexed until [...]
It is a well known trend – people move from searching for keywords to asking questions. The share of keyword questions is increasing every year according to all the major search engines. Last year Wordtracker even introduced a keyword tool dedicated to keyword questions research.
Yandex is not an exception. Accoring to the latest report, 3 [...]
One of the most frequently asked questions! Multilingual companies often run into trouble when trying to rank in Yandex with a subdomain or subdirectory of their strong .COM site. I heard this question at SEO conferences and from webmaster community.
So if you face problems with Yandex rankings, while your rankings in Google are great, [...]
Interesting interview. Found on the net a couple of days ago. The CEO of Yandex is talking (in English!) abough Yandex and his visions.
My favorite quotes:
We planned IPO a year ago. Now we don’t need IPO. We have enough money.
There is much more money available in Russia than brains
90% of searches are in Russian
Pople use [...]
Not sure how many of you use search operators.. I almost never do =) When it comes to my private life, I am a standard searcher. I google “translate” and “maps”, when I need to use Google Translate or Google Maps. I never use all those Related: or Inurl .. If I don’t find the [...]
Looks familiar? Looks like Google Calendar? It is generally very hard to find a feature on Yandex, which Google is missing!
Before you could manage your agenda in Yandex Calendar if you had a Yandex account. Now you can also create shared calendars to show your scheduled events to your friends or business contacts! The new [...]