Slurp - Is it broken?

[inbound]

Does anyone know why Slurp isn't very active at the moment?

We've just re-launched a site that had become stale, it's got loads of genuine one-way links to it and Google has responded by spidering and indexing almost all of the site. A week after re-launch and we're getting a really good flow of traffic from Google.

However, Yahoo has just the homepage listed!

So, Google has spidered 4 levels deep and seen 2,500+ pages in the same time that Yahoo has managed to visit just the homepage (15 times), what gives?

I don't have much hair left to tear out, should I forget about Yahoo as we are doing so well in Google or are there things I could be doing to influence Slurp?

Thanks

[martinibuster]

How do you define a genuine one-way link?

How well do these sites rank in Yahoo, the sites that are giving you a link?

[soapystar]

what do you mean by you relaunched it?...it was already out there right?....

are you penalised in yahoo?...does your homepage come up for the domain name search without the extension?

[inbound]

How do you define a genuine one-way link?

A link that was given to our site by another because of the good content on it, not because we requested it or offered any incentive. Those links are still there, probably because people don't check their links. The site had been truly neglected, meaning that people will not have been linking recently.

How well do these sites rank in Yahoo, the sites that are giving you a link?

Not great, but there are thousands of them. Some are #1 for their niche but that's not difficult given their area of operation.

what do you mean by you relaunched it?...it was already out there right?....

Yes it was already out there, it was just tired. We cleaned it up, re-structured it and added new content too.

are you penalised in yahoo?...does your homepage come up for the domain name search without the extension?

Now that's an interesting question. We don't seem to be visible, I have no idea why. The word (minus the .com) is used by 10,000 other sites (it's 2 words stuck together). I hadn't thought to do that search before as I know Google well but not Yahoo.

Other stats:

We are now getting thousands of visitors from Google every day, but none from Yahoo. Yahoo still shows up every day and looks at the homepage, we do have the new homepage showing in the Yahoo index but nothing else.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

[andrewshim]

slurp hasn't been inactive. quite the contrary.
it's been hitting my site like crazy this month.

[soapystar]

only homepage indexed which is not visible sounds like a penalised site ...you may be one of the many 1000's of the yahoo...THINK OF A NUMBER THEN BAN IT syndrome....

[inbound]

Thanks soapystar, it does look as though there's a penalty. Even MSN have started sending visitors and that's hardly used over here in the UK.

Now the question is:

Is there any way for us to have the ban lifted?

[JoeSinkwitz]

Slurp is broken for me, but in the exact opposite manner. Somehow it managed to have multiple connections open over several hundred pages at a time, taking down my DB, and really ticking off my host.

Arg!

[followgreg]

Same here, broken in a way that Slurp keeps on crawling our sites BUT it still doesn't reflect what it crawls on SERP.

So Yes it is totally broken, it actually never really worked well and IMO Y is obsolete compared to others, and a total waste in that manner.