SubDomain Issue seems resolving :)

Yahoo is back

[sandyk20]

Back in February 2006, I found my subdomains were accessilble using www.domain.com/forums/ and forums.domain.com. (happened in August 2005 when we shifted to dedicated server, prior to August 2005 everything was fine)

From October 2005 to January 2006, I experienced a huge raise in traffic from Yahoo (more then 300000 lakh visits per month for a semi-large site) although google traffic dropped to 500 unique visitors only.
Yahoo traffic was coming to www.domain.com/forums/ which was wrong for a sub-domain

I corrected this issue somewhere in end of February 2006, 301 redirecting the /forums/ to appropriate subdomain, last month I found google traffic was backup with more then 3000000 unique visits :-)
uptil last month yahoo traffic was gone down completely with only less then 500 visitors.

Now since last few days, I have found yahoo slurp spider actively indexing the subdomains and a slight increase in yahoo traffic as well.

I would request some suggestions to gain back my yahoo traffic and keep both google+yahoo sending me unique visitors.

Thanks.

[caveman]

Well basically since it sounds like the bots saw both sets of URL's, you had a simple dup content issue. The best you can do to fix it is make sure the redirects are properly in place (301), and get more links into the subdomains. I'd also make doubly sure you don't have any current links on the site pointing to the wrong URL's.

After that, it's just working on building up the quality of the sub's over time, and marketing them in the best ways you know how.

[sandyk20]

I have had built up enuff links to re-directed subdomain content in last 6 - 8 months but the bots seems to be visiting now...

anyway its good its back :)