Why would Yahoo! be using UA detection (User Agent) to hide links from Google?
This is a question I’d love to hear an answer to after stumbling across Yahoo’s homepage with my user agent set to Googlebot. Here are the screen shots…
1) Yahoo homepage with UA set to default in Firefox:
2) Yahoo homepage with user agent set to Googlebot…
Why would Yahoo do that?
Richard Baxter is Founder and Director of SEOgadget.co.uk, a UK SEO Consulting firm. Follow him on Twitter and Google Buzz…
