May
7
Yahoo! Is Exposing Spammers..In The Organic Listings!
Posted In: In The News, Yahoo! by Ty
Wow, could this be yet another ’show-off’ attempt to attract a potential bailout buy from Microsoft? I don’t think so. Yahoo has always had issues with e-mail spammers, and the load given to thier email servers, so I think this is a creative way to send a message to web site owners to clean up their act, or get flagged dead center in the organic search results. Take a look at this example I found today. They are apparently flagging sites they feel have placed thier email address on the web, an unsolicited action, and are skirting on a violation of the can-spam act law. This is surely going to tick alot of site owners off, such as Venue.com, a web design firm in Wilmington, NC.
My good friend Corey at Hippo Internet Marketing just gave me a tip of this news being published on other sites, including Yahoo’s blog.
Notice the red triangle:
Notice the SERP’s listing:
This box appears when you click the link:
Then this box when you click ‘More Details’
Interesting. Some sort of partnership with McAfee? Looks like there is more news on Search Engine Land.
Yes you are right. I just read the article there, thanks for the tip. I also followed Yahoo’s article on their blog, this should be interesting???
Thanks Corey!