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Yahoo! has shut me out starting around July. During that update I saw a large decline in pages indexed, then a sudden reappearance - although these pages went URL only. More recently I've gone from 800 to 950 pages in Yahoo's index (again, most are URL only). However, last week I noticed a drop to around 750 pages and this morning I'm down to 450.
Perhaps they've decided to purge my site altogether, who knows. I'm just wondering if anyone else is seeing large movements in the index.
Freq---
However, I've focused mainly on Google the past few years, and have not really been paying much attention to my saturation on yahoo. So for all i know, there is constantly a 200-300 page fluctuation for my site on yahoo. So I won't sound any alarms.
Besides, this might even be a good thing. Because atleast on Google, I've noticed that there is sometimes a drop in indexed pages just before there is a significant jump. Anyone else ever notice that?
Regarding fluctuations in the number of pages indexed - I have been following the number of pages indexed for a site and I see that number flucuate by as much as 20% from day to day. Pages indexed in Yahoo seem to 'naturally' fluctuate.
Slurps pattern of 1:1 robots.txt to page ratio changed starting yesterday. I've also got three pages cached now (out of 423). I know that doesn't sound like much, but for about 2 months only the home page was cached.
This morning, I've got 7 pages cached, and the spidering activity is picking up. I though others that might have suffered from index removal might be seeing the same, but I also did a reinclusion request. Perhaps this is the result.
Odd thing is that this site did (in the past) very well in Yahoo. I let my listing expire in the Yahoo directory and the site was still doing well. After a while, I renewed the listing and a short time after that, the site went south with URL only pages. I am not saying there is a correlation but I would like to know if anyone else has gone URL only after renewing a listing in the Yahoo directory. No conpsiracy theories here but just wondering if there could be some kind of bug in the system.
Once they reviewed it they removed about 100,000 pages from their directory leaving only the home page - they also moved me to the bottom of the Y! directory list (ranked by popularity).
I made some changes and have appeared to have been un-blacklisted - however they havent added any of my pages back in, and It still doesnt come up for keyword searches that it should dominate easily -but they did move me back up towards the top in the Y! directory so maybe its just taking a while to get me back in the SERPS
you can read more about it here
[webmasterworld.com ]
I think we need a thread, "Why not to pay for a directory listing at Yahoo."
what did i miss?
results do look pretty outdated in some sectors
dazz
yahoo still hates me
I was shut out during the July update. I put in a reinclusion request and about three weeks later started seeing more Slurp activity. The site has about 1,100 pages and right now Yahoo shows anywhere from 230 to 400 pages in Yahoo's index. Each day these two sets of results add about 5 - 10 pages.
Even with this relatively small percentage of the site in Yahoo's index, traffic is nearly what it was before what appears to have been a penalty. Slurp is now the most active bot on my site and my guess is things will be pretty "normal" in about another month.
Thanks to all for their help and well wishes.
