Yahoo! removes “Add To My Yahoo!” and “View As XML” links
Over at WebmasterWorld forums, a member started a thread titled Yahoo having a problem with RSS handling? He pointed out that he no longer saw any sites with the “Add To My Yahoo” and “View As Xml” links in the SERPs.
As a test, do any random search, you will likely not see a single RSS feed listed in the serps. Furthermore, the sites that normally do have RSS feeds are not even listed (at least the sites that have previously been recognized by Yahoo as having a feed with the aforementioned “add to my yahoo” link by it’s listing). Absolutely incredible.
He further said:
Maybe Yahoo has decided to stop showing the “add to my yahoo” and “view as XML” links in the serps. The downside to this is that the page titles will now revert back to the Directory titles, which may affect CTR (if Yahoo displayed your RSS feed, your meta title was used, not the directory title).
If Yahoo has intentinally removed the listing enhancements, what remains inexplicable is why some pages that once had the enhancements have disappeared from the serps all together.
The discussion is still going on at WebmasterWorld forums.
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on May 10th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
I noticed this myself. You are the first to post on this fact. It must have occured with their recent update. I thought it was a great feature.
on May 11th, 2006 at 5:23 am
Joe - I think it was just one of those tests by Yahoo! Also, I can see sites which used to have them have now been completely delisted from the index. Weird, isn’t it?