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Why does my site not show in Yahoo serps?

It does in hk and cn but not USA

         

HarryM

1:47 am on Apr 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I have posted this several times in the Yahoo questions and answers threads but had no response - presumably overlooked in the stampede. I would welcome any suggestions as I am about to tear out my hair.

A few facts:

I have a .com site hosted in the UK with one Inktomi PFI page.

Yahoo! Slurp crawls my site regularly, and searching with site:http://www.domain.com shows most (several hundred) of my pages including recently changed pages.

But I only get one result for keyword searches in uk.search.yahoo.com or US search.yahoo.com, and that is for my Inktomi page.

However Keyword searches at hk.search.yahoo.com and cn.search.yahoo.com return all the pages I tested, and I get traffic from them.

I don't see how I could have incurred a penalty because Yahoo crawls and indexes my site, and I have also received a reply to my email to the webmasterworld feedback address stating "There are no current indications that your pages have been blocked from the Yahoo! index."

I am at a loss as to what is happening.

There was some mention in earler threads that inclusion in Inktomi excluded you from Yahoo. Is there any truth in this?

Can I ever expect to see results from the US or UK? I get Google traffic from all over the world so I can only assume it is a Yahoo technical issue that is stopping me getting the same results from Yahoo.

How about it Tim and Mike - you must know the answer.

HarryM

1:44 pm on Apr 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Tim,

Thanks for responding.

Unable to sticky you as your in box is full.

The domain name is in my profile.

Harry