It’s not that the world of search engine optimization and search engine marketing needed any more complication and caveats. With Verizon’s purchase of Yahoo, the SEO world has received yet another level of complication and confusion.

Yahoo, in the previous years, has partnered with Google to display Google ads through display networks. In addition to Google, they have also partnered with Yext on their directory management services in hopes of gaining revenue there. And in recent years, launched the new small business subsidiary of Yahoo called Aabaco Small Business for their small business directory and marketing services, which is expected to merge in with Verizon in first quarter of 2017.

The convoluted and unnecessarily complex subsidiaries and small business portal changes make it almost impossible for the average small business to optimize their company profile and property register their websites with the company.

In addition to all the complication with Yahoo’s subsidiaries and partnerships, Verizon has it’s work cut out for them. Considering that Verizon already owns the former AOL’s small search engine market share, it is now facing the task of merging the two search engines into one.

Of course, Google still holds the vast majority of the search market share, so Yahoo’s new acquisition still has very little effect on the primary SEO efforts for marketers such as ourselves. However, questions still stand for what will happen to Yahoo’s existing small percentage of the search market share and how complicated the process will be on simply registering small business listings on Yahoo’s/Abacco’s/Verizon’s directories.

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