• SEO by the Sea, Monday, February 2, 2009 1:15 PM

If you have ever wondered how Yahoo might automate SEO, then take a look at Bill Slawski's latest post. He dissects a Yahoo patent application published in early January that details how the search engine might automate optimization for search engines. The patent filing provides example on updating page titles, URLs for pages, meta descriptions and meta keywords, alt attributes for images, and headings on pages.

Slawski explains that the patent application details some basic optimization for individual pages, but ignores many technical issues to make sites and pages search-engine-friendly. Yahoo also ignores "the potential for conflict of interest in a search engine also performing search engine optimization," he writes.

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