Tag Archives: Ranking

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex Data Leak: Ranking Factors & The Myths We Found  Search Engine Journal Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex code leak: Why hack of ‘Russian Google’s’ ranking factors has spooked the SEO industry  The Indian Express Source link

The search marketing community is trying to make sense of the leaked Yandex repository containing files listing what looks like search ranking factors. Some may be looking for actionable SEO clues but that’s probably not the real value. The general agreement is that it will be helpful for gaining a general understanding of how search engines work. If you want hacks or shortcuts those aren’t here. But if you want to understand more about how a search engine works. There’s gold. —… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leak: Insights  Search Engine Journal Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Massive Yandex code leak reveals Russian search engine’s ranking factors  Ars Technica Source link

Enlarge / The Russian logo of Yandex, the country’s largest search engine and a tech company with many divisions, inside the company’s headquarters. SOPA Images / Getty Images Nearly 45GB of source code files, allegedly stolen by a former employee, have revealed the underpinnings of Russian tech giant Yandex’s many apps and services. It also revealed key ranking factors for Yandex’s search engine, the kind… Source link

Yandex had a boatload of its source code across all its technology allegedly leaked by a disgruntled employee and part of that was the source code for Russia’s largest search engine – Yandex. As you can imagine, SEOs and others are diving in and seeing what they can learn from the source code. I personally did not download the source code, so I did not go through it myself but I wanted to share what people did find via Twitter from their investigations of the source code. Here’s the… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leaked & Revealed  Search Engine Roundtable Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1922 search ranking factors  Search Engine Land Source link

A former employee allegedly leaked a Yandex source code repository, part of which contained more than 1,900 factors the search engines uses for ranking search results. Why we care. This leak has revealed 1,922 ranking factors Yandex used in its search algorithm, at least as of July 2022. Perhaps Martin MacDonald put it best on Twitter today: “The Yandex hack is probably the most interesting thing to have happened in SEO in years.” Yandex is… Source link