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I've never understood Yahoo, and I don't think I will

Here's an advance bit of info...(we're going to do an audio tutorial on the blog next week about this)

Brian Mark, who's a speaker at SES & also a contributing author on my blog, just found a Great bit of info at the SES San Jose... Apparently being W3C validated is now indexing at an extremely HIGH %

Last week some tests were run and 12,000+ new pages were indexed... something to look into

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NeO

Yeah, but...

Neither one of these pages come close to validating.  I'm not a big follower of the validation vs serp scenario, because I have yet to see one example where a valid xhtml webpage out performed in the SERPs a regular, although error (as far a W3C goes) filled website.  

There have been a few tests, but validation requirements for a webpage to get higher listing on a SERP doesn't seem very realistic.  I've posted about this before, although if Yahoo wants to do it, well, I guess so.

The SE's are not code police, they are search providers, their business is search results, and I don't see how they would be pushed one way or the other based on W3C standards.  

I've heard the argument that W3C validated pages are easier to crawl, faster to load, etc. however, I don't see the bots having a lot of problem crawling, really anything on the web.  The bots crawl weirdo IBM .do files, javascript, PDF and Word Docs, Text files, php and asp.net included content, code behind (yeap, I have found references to code behind pages,) style sheets, you name it, the bots have an inate talent to crawl them.

But back to my question, can someone tell me why I'm showing up better in Yahoo?

Is it my sigs in this and other forums?

Right I didn't say you were getting ranked higer because of validation reasons... BUT if your pages link together... then this would help greatly ie:
if you only have 30 of your 300 pages indexed... then you really only show 30 backlinks per SE so if you get them all done up quickly w/ the Tidy extension for firefox (which I suggest, and need to do myself)  then you would in theory have 300 backlinks because all 300 pages would be indexed (I'm using made up numbers here I have no idea how many pages you have...

And to figure out why your ranking for those peticular terms... it could have to do with your sigs at different forums... I have well over 3k+ posts at various forums and they make my sites pop to the top

food for thought

NeO

Looks like Yahoo doesn't pay attention to no-follow links.  Either that, or Matt Cutts has them turned off.

Never did submit to the Yahoo directory.  Like most of the BIG directories, other than having the high PR link, you don't really need it to be "included" in SERP's.  

But it seems that Yahoo! doesn't pay attention to the rel=nofollow tag in blogs or forums.  They like em just fine.