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Not yet, the crawler is still too new to tell. Most likely 3 to 5 weeks, but
that is based on absolutely no hard evidence. ;)
>Do you know where the Yahoo crawler free submit is?
You can suggest your site to be listed in the Yahoo Directory at
[docs.yahoo.com...]
Once your site is listed in the directory it should be crawled. But, there is
no submit to just get crawled.
This is for Yahoo directory. Isn't there anything which submits to Yahoo surp or that is free?
Slurp went through one of my site a few days ago and crawled several hundred pages and are now in Yahoo serp.
Traffic so far is nothing really to be excited about, perhaps my pages are not just optimize for Yahoo.
Sort of a preview of what kind and how much traffic can I get from Yahoo if I have paid for those pages.
1. At first, the new search Yahoo displayed sites mostly from the Inktomi data base using the Yahoo query 'site:mysite.com'
2. Then Google (or those Google sites that Yahoo had been using) was rolled back in, but only as backfill. At that time, the Yahoo query 'site:mysite.com' began showing the Google index sites, but since the Google index pages are only backfill, they get traffic only for very unique and unusual searches, which is next to nothing.
3. So now, the presence of your pages in the oganic ('free') active search Yahoo data base can only be identified by actual search.yahoo traffic volume from log analysis. Otherwise, the best available indicator of pages that will draw search.yahoo traffic are pages indexed by Inktomi.
Can anyone confirm my theory, which is based on my limited observations?
They also said they will be adding sites from the directory to their search database. However, I got the impression that those sites will be re-reviewed (by either bots or people) before they get added, so the spammy sites won't make it in.
