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
Ć¼ PageRank and other link factors (age, relevancy).
Ć¼ User signals (e.g. CTR).
Ć¼ The structure of URLs.
Multiple slashes or numbers are a negative factor.
Ć¼ Backlinks from Wikipedia.
Ć¼ 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:
š«„ Itās extremely costly,
especially now with the
internet becoming so huge.
š«„ A significant amount of
websites block all unknown
Search Engine bots.
SOLUTION:
š As a user, change your Search
Engines habits. Use alternatives,
set them as default and donate!
š 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 wonāt all survive.
2.No tools or documentation, due to privacy.
This might change in the futureā¦
3.SE powered by Bing to be optimized the
same way as Bing.
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