Google yes, Yahoo no

site good on google but not on yahoo

[Skooter]

Here's a mystery...

HISTORY.
1. before Aug 2004, website has high ranking on Google and Yahoo.
2. website updated in Aug 2004, with the urls of most pages changed (not the homepage, of course)
3. Google index updated, and rankings recover within about 1 week.
4. many pages still not indexed by Yahoo, and Yahoo rankings are still floundering (after 4 months)

YAHOO STATUS.
1. virtually every url under the site that existed BEFORE Aug 2004 is indexed by Yahoo, but the cache shows the new website's Page Not Found page, which has links to the rest of the website. This seems to indicate that Yahoo is crawling (or should I say slurping?) our site.
2. most NEW urls from the reorganized website are NOT indexed by Yahoo.
3. for pages on the site that are NOT in the Yahoo index, the link:http://www.blah.com/blah1/blah2.htm tool on Yahoo DOES reveal pages that link to this un-indexed page.

--- I think I adhere to the theory that Yahoo's database was corrupted, and hasn't recovered yet.

[prairie]

It seems to be the general consensus that Yahoo is quite a bit slower than Google at re-spidering established sites, but 3 months is quite a wait.

There's a lot of incentive to get a site perfect from the beginning while still leaving room to grow.

[BillyS]

Have you checked the Yahoo Beta site to see how many listings you have there? It is quite different.

[petehall]

Yahoo! Beta?

This is news to me, but then I do not care much for the current Yahoo! search engine.

URL anyone?

[Skooter]

I was wondering the same thing. I searched on Yahoo with "Yahoo beta site" and came up with [beta.yahoo.com,...] which links to Yahoo's "Sorry, the page you requested was not found" page. So I repeated the search on Google, and got [yahoo.com...] which seems to redirect to the regular Yahoo site.

The thing that gets me about the current status of my website is that even though Yahoo seems to have not indexed a particular page, I CAN find pages that link to the page by using Yahoo's "link:http://www.bbbbb" command. So, it seems that the page, or at least the url, is stored SOMEWHERE in Yahoo's index.

[BennyBlanco]

If you mean the beta search that was mentioned in another thread, I believe the link is [mysearch.yahoo.com...]

Hope its what you were looking for

[petehall]

Great, thanks!

[Mr Bo Jangles]

If you mean the beta search that was mentioned in another thread, I believe the link is [mysearch.yahoo.com...]

Mmm, it sure does give *very* different results - and much more favourable to me.
Anyone know why this is so much different, and when this search is going to become the default?

[siteseo]

Question for you Y! experts:
I have two, relatively new websites (4 mo's old). They are identical in terms of layout/design, but no duplicate content. Y! shows lots of backlinks to both sites, but for some reason will not index ONE of the sites. It has indexed the other site, however. Any idea why Y! would not index one of the sites? They both have a maximum of 3 outbound text links (per page) to CJ affiliate merchants. I know Y! isn't wild about affiliate sites, but both of these sites have lots of great content, and the affiliate links are pretty much incidental. Anyway, since both sites are so similar, it's a mystery why one would be indexed and not the other. Both sites are in G and MSNBeta. Thoughts?