Yahoo WebRank Toolbar
Date Written on 06/04/2004Article Written by: Abe LaBonte
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The Yahoo Webrank Companion Toolbar is a helpful SEO Tool. It was designed like the Google PageRank Toolbar, intended to monitor the number of inbound links pointing to a site. At the time of this article it is only in it's BETA form, but the WebRank portion of the toolbar will work just like the 1 through 10 toolbar ranking system Google Toolbar users are accustomed to. Like Google, the toolbar does not record any personally identifiable information when placed on a users computer.
WebRank calculations are created from a complex algorithm, that provide a measure of link popularity in the same basic manner as Google. Your recent searches through the toolbar are not communicated to yahoo whatsoever, and the toolbar will provide the option upon installation of whether or not you would like to include the WebRank feature in your browser.
The new toolbar will help Yahoo identify trends and other usage patterns in order to better provide results, that are more relevant. The WebRank toolbar will not only help Yahoo to be able to index new sites faster, and incorporate them into their index, but it will help webmasters get their website indexed when a new page of theirs gets loaded via a browser with the added toolbar plugin. Some other noticable benefits are the provision of how popular a website is based on it's Yahoo WebRank, and the triggering of Yahoo's spidering bots.
Yahoo WebRank will help many SEO's and Webmasters in the same manner that the Google Toolbar helps them. It will aid webmasters with their opinion in whether a website is worth linking to, or exchanging links with, and will give the general public on the internet a good idea of whether a site is going to be helpful or not based on it's rank. To download the Yahoo's Companion Toolbar, and for more information on this browser tool Go Here.
