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It's my wife's site, and she has two domains -- hernickname.com, which does a 301 redirect to hername.com. I submitted hername.com yesterday. Just did a search for it ... and the site is in there, but somehow hernickname.com is showing up as the URL for that search result.
I have no idea how else Y would've discovered this site aside from the Free Submit, and less of an idea how they found the 301'd domain.
Anyone else in yet after using the Free Submit yesterday? Anyone have a clue about my 301 situation?
Had you checked for the site's presence prior to submitting?
Yes, I think I did, but I may have not done a domain search like I did this morning. Can't remember all the details because I've been checking up a bit on how/when G is indexing it, too ... but like I said, I can't imagine how Y would know about the site yet other than through the Free Submit yesterday.
but keeps the original URL.
But that's not the original URL. I submitted hername.com, but it's got hernickname.com.
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Anyway, I think it's really too soon for anyone to see their free submissions. When Yahoo does normal spidering it takes at least a week for the results to show (at least, in my experience).
[edited by: flobaby at 11:51 pm (utc) on Mar. 5, 2004]
So now I'll spend the weekend scratching my head about how G found the 301'd domain.....
The last site submission I did was about 3 years back, I still think its better to be found.
Of course it is, but if you have a site/URL you can use for testing, why not test Yahoo and see if they'll really do anything with sites submitted through the new Free Submit tool? If nothing else, it's more material for future newsletters and articles on our company web site. :)
I hope others similarly keep track, and perhaps we will get a ballpark idea of how long it takes to get to different levels of indexing.
Free site submit is a waste of time. It will be spiderd no matter what providing you have links that are already in yahoo pointing to your site.
To repeat, we all know that.
Submission was done as a test to see if they're really gonna do anything with that or if it's just a nice decoration (like it is most everywhere else).
I really didn't track how long did it take them to include a few of my sites but...
Slurp/Ysearch have been very busy on most of my sites and still going at it.
So far, some of my pages have started to show up on the 1st page of semi-competitive terms(overture listing top/bottom).
I didn't submit but there you go :)
What I'm really curious, if in the long run when there's enough paid URL's, if my current ranking will hold. And, are the paid URL's going to be marked? Just like the way they display Ink result as (additional listing).
We'll see.
