Still not pleased with Yahoo's Geographic Targeting

Not enough of my Pages Showing for a Localized Search

[edd1]

Hundreds of pages indexed for our site on a world web search. Ten when you narrow down the search to our specific country.

How does that benefit the user, this has been stuck for months now. What on earth is going on? Surely it would make sense for someone to find a Canadian site in a search of Canadian sites or a New Zealand site in a search for New Zealand sites.

I'm just struggling to accept that Yahoo has any real interest in good results for the user when they are depriving the user of up to date regional listings. My cynical side always suspects that its a way of getting people to pay to be included but maybe its not and it's just low quality?

[lazycat]

I am experiencing pretty much the same situation.

On a five month old site, Yahoo has indexed around 3000 pages in the .com search and NONE in the local UK search.

The site is on a .co.uk domain, is hosted by a UK hosting company on a UK-based server and is aimed SOLELY at British internet users.

If I search for my domain name in the UK search I find nothing but a handful of sites which link to me. Two of which are .com sites hosted in the US.

So what's up with that?

[edd1]

It's just a situation where for once I can say without doubt, although I'm having a moan about results for one of our sites, the facts are 100% damning - You are providing your searchers with poor results BY DEFINITION. If you don't want to list the site because you don't like it then fine - remove it from the index, but if you are going to list it then list it for the country it is hosted in, designed for and written about!

Come on Y, wake up!