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Any ideas?
If there site is TOTALLY clean, you should re-submit the URL.
Other alternatives for fast inclusion is Overture Site Match and Site Match Xchange. snipped
[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 1:25 am (utc) on Aug. 30, 2004]
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I have three clients with this same problem. All are new sites so we are just starting to work on them. The one site has is small and I thought it might be a hosting issue because they actually rank #17 for their name but the listing just shows a bunch of "squares". Another client comes up in Yahoo, but under some stupid URL that some hack web design firm convinced them they needed (along with 12 others).
That being said, I can't seem to even venture a guess as to why a site this big and apparently this clean would not be listed.
They are listed in the Yahoo directory correctly.
Having to go through SiteMatch to get a major publicly held company to come up under their own name would seem to contrast directly to Yahoo's goal of creating a strong search engine. And I say this as a stock holder of the company and fairly avid fan of their company.
I guess I'll go directly to Yahoo and see if I get any response.
Whilst I agree that it is in the best interest of Yahoo! to have a large company in their index, especially if they are a market leader in their field.
However, I have found that many traditional "brick and motar" companies prefer the security that Paid Inclusion programs (such as Site Match or Site Match Xchange) provide. For them, it is a form of very cheap business insurance.
They are used to paying for advertising and have a dedicated marketing budget. Once they seen the light that is SEM and compare the client aquistion costs, they are happy to throw money at campaigns especially if the ROI looks good.
Feel free to sticky me. I may be able to help you out with any Site Match and Site Match Xchange questions you may have.
they don't come up under their own name in Yahoo or MSN.
They are used to paying for advertising and have a dedicated marketing budget.
companies prefer the security that Paid Inclusion programs
I just looked up the definition of "extortion" and this doesn't quite fit, but gosh, it smells bad.
Perhaps they did something in the past and no one there is telling me. I guess I was just wondering if anyone else had seen anything like this since Yahoo intorduced their new search engine.
Take care...
Their stock listing does rank number one, but not their site. I dug into the code a little more (not really my specialty as a marketing guy). Site is built in frames and there is almost no info in the code of the home page.
At this point, I probably need to get my programmers involved. However, when people talk about adding robot.txt files into the code so that a spider won't visit a site, where is that written? Can you "View Source" it in aframed site or would it be in a file somewhere?
My thought was that they could have put up a blank page and still ranked #1 for their name simply due to incoming links with matching link text. Well, they essentially have a blank page codewise.
We'll redesign the site, de-frame it, make it spider friendly and see if this solves it.
If not, we'll be back.
Thanks again...
sample robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow:
will allow all robots
If you are using internet explorer
To view the source on different parts of a frames page rightclick on the part of the page you are interested in and then select "view source". (Only works on text sections not pictures, right clicking on a picture lets you save it)
