Yahoo! Launches New Rankings System in United States

Yahoo! Launches New Rankings System in United States

Yahoo! will launch its new search marketing ranking model in the US next Monday, February 5, when paid ad placement will be determined by “quality” in addition to keyword bid price.

To date, search ads on Yahoo! and its distribution partner sites have been ranked solely by bid price - the bigger the bid, the higher an ad appears within the search results.

But now a combination of the bid amount and ad will determine placement (similar to the Google system) ensuring greater relevance and potentially better conversion rates.

It is the latest phase in the Yahoo! upgrade of its paid advertising system to a new platform code-named “Panama”. The company expects all active US advertisers will have migrated to the new system by the end of March.

There is no word yet on when “Panama” will arrive in Australia but an announcement is believed imminent - Yahoo! Search Marketing will be conducting a Breakfast Briefing on the new system at Search Engine Room in Sydney on March 21.

Search Engine Room

29 January 2007

 

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