Comments on: Yahoo Experiments With Non-Yahoo Links On Home Page

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Digital Back Info » — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:51:10 +0000

[...] Yahoo Experiments With Non Yahoo Links On Home PageThe major Internet portals like Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Google, etc. do not place links on their home page that go anywhere except deeper into the properties. Advertising is generally the only exception. So it surprised us when Yahoo contacted us earlier this week to say that they are testing outside linkswww.techcrunch.com [...]

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By: Aibek

Aibek — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:07:44 +0000

I wonder, how much traffic it sends. Does it beat Digg’s front page?

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By: Ted Drake

Ted Drake — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:11:07 +0000

Many Yahoo! sites cannot handle a front page promotion. While this is actually a very interesting move, I’m afraid very few web sites could handle the traffic this generates. The Yahoo! Home Page is far beyond getting slash dotted.

By: maqingxi

maqingxi — Mon, 28 May 2007 05:55:07 +0000

按中国的赞美词说：你真是太有才了。

By: TechCrunch Japanese

TechCrunch Japanese — Sun, 27 May 2007 15:24:43 +0000

Yahoo、外部へのリンクをトップページに掲載する実験を行う…

Yahoo、AOL、MSN、Googleなどのインターネットのメジャーなポータルサイトは、トップページに自サイト以外へのリンクを置かないのが普通だ。広告だけは一般に例外だが。だから今週Yahooが…..

By: Austin Cassidy

Austin Cassidy — Sun, 27 May 2007 12:43:28 +0000

The most obvious problem with this is that the Yahoo front page can probably deliver a crushing amount of traffic. It’s probably quite a bit like getting featured on Fark, the Drudge Report, and Digg all at the same time. How many sites can really handle it?

And how can Yahoo be sure that they aren’t sending traffic to a dead link?

But I agree with the previous poster who mentioned YPN. This would be a great tool to “treat” some of their larger and loyal publishers… and it helps the publishers grow their sites, enouraging increased YPN impressions, etc.

By: fluencev

fluencev — Sun, 27 May 2007 09:11:17 +0000

i dont think so!haw~~lol

By: Móvilpro

Móvilpro — Sun, 27 May 2007 05:09:28 +0000

This will be stupid if they put thir links to direct users to other pages, this is however a good move…

By: TC need horsepower & Internet cache

TC need horsepower & Internet cache — Sun, 27 May 2007 00:12:34 +0000

geezzzeeee….. This page need cache or page load speed.

By: Bobby Andersen

Bobby Andersen — Sat, 26 May 2007 23:59:15 +0000

Congrats Mike – just wondering if this is a payback for having Brad at the 20? I mean, did they provide any info on stats or why they selected crunchgear out of the 240824920942 billion web sites on the web? Can you share what other sites were picked? Might make a good alexa comparison chart. pre and post.

By: sean percival

sean percival — Sat, 26 May 2007 21:39:23 +0000

Ya, can we see any numbers on how many referrals that generated?

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 26 May 2007 21:20:11 +0000

An alexa comparison of TechCrunch.com vs Yahoo.com (and my own site) That really puts things in perspective

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Sat, 26 May 2007 20:45:17 +0000

Hrm, how can one become part of this “testing”?

By: Jerome

Jerome — Sat, 26 May 2007 20:10:12 +0000

The person at Yahoo who came up with this should be given a promotion (if they’re not at the top). The winners on the web will be the ones who are inclusive, not exclusive. As social tools and platforms like stumbleupon, digg etc. proliferate people will find valuable content one way or another, and if you don’t have it you become irrelevant.

By: bdb

bdb — Sat, 26 May 2007 19:28:10 +0000

Perhaps they will drive eyes elsewhere, but where? To the publishers, and who uses Adsense? The publishers, so they drive traffic to their (YPN) publishers which use their add platform. This makes sense, can they drive revenue for the publishers as well as the competition? I defer to the experts.

By: Skeptical

Skeptical — Sat, 26 May 2007 18:31:50 +0000

Interesting, does Yahoo! no longer want to make money? Seems like they’ll be driving people away from their network rather than bringing them in.

By: Ali

Ali — Sat, 26 May 2007 18:12:01 +0000

Arrington please tell Yahoo they are welcome…actually Yahoo if you are reading this please feel free to link to articles from my blog on your homepage as well.

I have absolutely no objection whatsoever.

Who am I, I’m nobody and that’s exactly the kind of content people want to read. Something from nobody who doesn’t have a popular opinion hence it is very natural and straightforward.

By: Fashion Industry

Fashion Industry — Sat, 26 May 2007 18:09:51 +0000

I would love to see some stats to….I know they were probably in the hundred thousands range.

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By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Sat, 26 May 2007 17:29:47 +0000

This is HUGE – a few months ago my website was mentioned in an article that was on the front page of Yahoo for just 3 hours. Viewers had to pick that article (out of 6 others in that main section), read the article, see that the mention to JibberJobber was #4 of a 10-point list, click on JibberJobber, and choose to sign up if they wanted to.

There were about 300 people that went this far, and about 2,000 people that got to my page during this three hours (over 10% conversion).

It amazed me that Yahoo had this kind of traffic. I found the traffic to be totally different than Digg traffic, too. This was on a Yahoo Finance article, and related to careers, which I’m guessing is a totally different demographic than what Digg (or even TechCrunch) gets.

Based on my experience, I would love ANY ink on yahoo’s front page anytime! And this news, to me, is HUGE because it means that it is likely that a very smart, intriguing, contraversial (or whatever) blog post could end up there, whereas before it was only a dream.

Jason Alba
CEO – JibberJobber.com
Because we can all be fired!

By: Laurent Van Winckel

Laurent Van Winckel — Sat, 26 May 2007 17:26:43 +0000

So tell us Mike, how much traffic did it generate? Now that would be interesting to know.

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 26 May 2007 17:20:26 +0000

I too want the stats. How does it compare to a good digging?

By: Simon Moore

Simon Moore — Sat, 26 May 2007 17:02:19 +0000

Good move for Yahoo as well as users (and Techcrunch) ………. will widen appeal and make more relevant for the USER – The user wants the best content or links and this move helps the portal be more personal………..gotta be good

Simon

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–noun
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4. Computers. a Web site that functions as an entry point to the Internet, as by providing useful content and linking to various sites and features on the World Wide Web.

By: Farhan Memon

Farhan Memon — Sat, 26 May 2007 16:57:12 +0000

Like #8 I’d be interested in knowing what impact being featured on the homepage had.

It would be interesting if instead of an editorial selection Yahoo! ceded control of the homepage, or at least a section of it, to their users who would vote a story up or down Digg-like.