Yahoo has my domain name wrong.

Does anyone know why?

[Buddha]

When I search in Y! for "myuniquesitename", my site comes up with the correct title/description.

However, the url listed is a page on another website. This page is an error 404 when clicked.

I ran the page through a header check and it is an error 400 bad request.

Any ideas what is wrong? And how to fix it?

[Gorilla]

You can check what pages Yahoo has indexed from your site by searching for

site:www.your-domain-name.com

The situation you describe where it seems Yahoo has indexed your content under someone elses domain name, *might* mean that your content has been copied by the other site and that they deliver it to the Yahoo indexer in order to get better ranking for their website. If you can prove that the content is yours, you might want to contact Yahoo to have them remove it from the index.

[encyclo]

It could be this:

[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

If it is, it's not pretty.

[natim]

I had the exact thing happen with Y. Upon extensive investigation, I too found a former web designer of mine decided to go into competition with me. However, in his haste to copy my sites, he stupidly left my url in the meta description. Further as I continued my investigation, I uncovered multiple sites of mine he had copied text from word for word including punctuation and specific "things" I did to catch this type of thing. I notified him and he said "oh it was an accident, I was reviewing your sites and I must have accidentially copied something. He took the bait, It gave me such great pleasure to have my lawyer write him a letter regarding the DMCA. By the way I would advise you to make a snapshot of the current listing, which is not yours. If you look into the source code you just might find the culprit. Good luck.

[Buddha]

I tried site:www.mysite.com in Y! and nothing came up. I assume this means it's penalized.

The site that is listed is a 404. So I Looked at the cached page and it is a copied page of mine.

I doubt having that webmaster remove the page will fix it, right?

[natim]

Buddha, how do you think it magically appeared in the first place, someone STOLE your information. You can bet if you found it here, it will be other places as well.In any event it's obviously harmed your site. I would write them a very to the point, not mr. nice guy letter informing them of the impact of violating the DMCA. I can tell you from experience you must take some action to put them on notice to remove any and all copied info or anything that remotely references or could possibly be construed to be related to your site. I would also tell them that you have them on a watch list for future violations. You can't tip toe around with these people. They will keep doing it if not to you, then to other hard working webmasters. I hope you get them.

[Buddha]

I'm going to DCMA them. I've done it before already a few times with some other sites. It's worked 99% of the time.

But IMO, Yahoo is really bad at catching these types of things with their algo.

related question: If my page was cloaked in the first place, would someone be able to steal my content in the first place? What I mean by this is the content the search engine uses to rank me.

Do any ppl cloak for the sole purpose of not having their page hijacked?