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However, I've noticed that only the homepage ever shows up in Yahoo! SERPS, even though a whole bunch of the site's pages ought to show on some of the keyword combinations which bring up the homepage. I haven't had one hit from Yahoo! on any other page.
Has anyone else experienced this? And is this expected to change on April 15th (when, I understand, Yahoo! drops its previous Inktomi results)?
Shame really because I like Yahoo but they will never compete with Google until they start spidering and including more content (certainly in my field anyway)
Regards
Rod
[edited by: mikeD at 11:37 am (utc) on April 9, 2004]
I launched my site at the end of January, and submitted to the Inktomi PFI at Positiontech shortly after with 2 of my pages (one of them being the homepage).
I submitted my site to the Yahoo free add url around March 15th and got spidered quite quickly, but to this day I'm not ranking for anything else than the main keyword of those pages I orginially submitted to the Inktomi PFI.
If I do a site:www.mysite.com search I have the same results. Only the 2 pages I originally submitted to Inktomi show up.
However, if i search for www.mysite.com/mypages.html I get hits on every single page in my site, and a funny thing:
When i search this way for my home page, www.mysite.com/homepage.html I get an old cached page, while a search for "my main keyphrase" shows a recent cached homepage.
It has been this way for almost a month now
INK has been doing this for YEARS with many sites. Methinks it's more a matter of them CHOOSING not to index the whole site then utter incompetence but who knows.
See my feedback in
[webmasterworld.com ]
I'm onitoring dozens of different sites, ranging from small (3-10 pages) to big ones (1000s of pages) both non-commercial and commerical ones.
Last few days Slurp is equally active as Googlebot, if not more.
Still, with a few notable exceptions, most sites rank poorly in Yahoo...
there is a difference between crawling an indexing pages and an even bigger difference between crawling and SCORING pages.
Yes, that's the point of it... where pages ARE in the Yahoo! index from the free crawl but only the homepage ever shows up in SERPS - which just happens to be the one that was previously PFI-ed.
A site:www.mysite.com search should bring up ALL the pages indexed right?
Cause as I explained earlier in the thread only the 2 Inktomi PFI pages show up, although each and every other page show up for an individual page search.
That should prove that they are in the index...somewhere....right?
Actually at this point, I donīt care about ranking in Yahoo, what scares me is the persons that choosed our company to represent them (unique not affiliate) when doing a search for their property canīt find it in yahoo. Actually they do a lot of searchings like that.
Not finding it, how can they keep on trusting me.......
Actually Yahoo is sort of an "public" company, an authority site, with a lot of resposability againts the civils.
The same as a famous person is......an famous just canīt act as anybody, they have an resposability just because of being famous.
So itīs not the only fact of not having clicks from yahoo, is NOT being represented there.
When people do search the web, they think itīs from the whole web..... not only a list of websites.
For example in google, if I search for an site with penalty, only write the company name without the .com etc, they show up first, i.e, they are banned bot not excluded.....
I pushed out a total overhaul to a site around the sametime you launched your site and I'm seeing yahoo crawl the home page in addition to the content pages (sometimes daily but always weekly) and it appears that they haven't had an update to the index because I can only find my pre-existing pages in yahoo; which are now all removed from the server. Here's to hoping for an update to the index SOOOOOON.
We've not had any noticeable trouble with slurp finding and including multiple pages from the site.
However, for reasons unknown, once again the index page from our not-for-profit info site has been made to disappear by Yahooey The Magnificent and his lovely assistant Slurpella.
Hopefully the index will return later in the act.
I have noticed the same thing where sites are only findable when doing a domain.com search. The interesting thing is the same search shows sites linking to the new sites as well.
Pretty every month I launch several new sites. I noticed sites that I launched in December are now searchable. However sites from January are still only searchable by domain. Yahoo seems to take four months before it makes a site searchable. This is incredibly slow even compared to old Google standards. If Yahoo wants to compete it will have to get the today's standards fast.
Well... at least the previously Ink-PFI-ed homepage is still in SERPS post 15th April.
You are correct:
"When people do search the web, they think itīs from the whole web..... not only a list of websites."
I too dont care so much anymore about how Im ranking in Yahoo. The primary damage caused by not having a site show up when someone does a search on the name is that your company loses business credibility.
I believe that Yahoo has a certain standard of duty that they must meet.
