In the end of last year Russian SEO society was shaken and excited at the same time by a sudden change or ranking algorithm from Arzamas to Snezhinsk. Snezhinsk came with over 1000 ranking factors and ad a result better spam detection, better dupe content filters and better geo-targeting.
Right now local results are available for [...]
POSTED BY Verona ON February 10th, 2010.
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Yes, again.. This week Yandex released for testing its new ranking algorithm. The testing environment is somewhat similar to the Sandbox of Google and can be accessed on buki.yandex.ru.
According to Yandex, the new algorithm will analyze over 1000 variable to position websites in the SERPs. Moreover, they published a paper (in English – yey!) [...]
POSTED BY Verona ON November 13th, 2009.
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This week I got the first client with local ties on Yandex, or to be more precise, it’s region in Yandex Webmaster Tools was “Moscow”… That was unexpected since the client was strictly e-commerce website without any regional contact details, without region in Yandex Catalog … nothing like that. Just hosted in Moscow…Weird.
Hence I had [...]
POSTED BY Verona ON August 20th, 2009.
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Soon the new version of the latest Yandex search algorithm Arzamas 1.2 will be released. It is going to be even more geotargeted than already very much geotargeted Arzamas 1.1 =) Yes.. Russia is big and there are many geo entities to target… Last week Yandex opened a beta-version for testing, and that was a [...]
POSTED BY Verona ON July 26th, 2009.
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In April Yandex launched a new algorithm known as Arzamas these days (Arzamas is a name of a Russian city btw). Apart from many new factors affecting rankings, such as for example duplicate content filter that removed over one million of pages from the index in one night, in the new algorithm was implemented a [...]
POSTED BY Verona ON June 17th, 2009.
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