Not much information is given in the blog post, but the following statement is somewhat of a red flag: "you may see some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index and some changes in ranking as well." Web site owners might want to keep a close eye on their rankings on Yahoo! over the next few weeks to see if they are affected by any changes resulting from this change. A convenient way of tracking rankings is to use a tool such as WebPosition's Reporter. If you find that specific pages have dropped out of the index, then it would be a good idea to analyze the page to ensure it's well optimized.

This might also be a good time to review some of the basic information about the new Yahoo! spider by reading the FAQs on their web site. You'll find useful information there including how the spider handles redirects, or the robots.txt file for example. For more information about controlling the behavior of search engine spiders with the robot.txt file, read this article.

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