The deck presented at BrightonSEo April 2023 - Search Engines Beyond Google. An overview of the current Search Engine Landscape beyond Google, including the International search engines and some of the newly emerged web3/privacy-led Search Engines.
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Key Learnings about Yandex Ranking Factors
ü PageRank and other link factors (age, relevancy).
ü User signals (e.g. CTR).
ü The structure of URLs.
Multiple slashes or numbers are a negative factor.
ü Backlinks from Wikipedia.
ü Yandex.Metrika present on the site. Also, some
particular Metrika metrics.
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Why is it so hard to create own index?
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PROBLEM:
🫥 It’s extremely costly,
especially now with the
internet becoming so huge.
🫥 A significant amount of
websites block all unknown
Search Engine bots.
SOLUTION:
😍 As a user, change your Search
Engines habits. Use alternatives,
set them as default and donate!
😍 As a webmaster, unblock all
the Search Engine user-agents,
unless they are nasty.
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Key SEO Takeaways about the Hipster Search Engines
1.They won’t all survive.
2.No tools or documentation, due to privacy.
This might change in the future…
3.SE powered by Bing to be optimized the
same way as Bing.
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