Is my site listed?

May sound fool, but I don't know

[Gonzalez]

Hi everybody.

If I perform a search like "allinurl:www.mysite.com" I get +5000 results, more or less the number of pages my site actually has.

If I search any of my keywords (example: the title of my site, of a webpage, etc.) I get no results from my site.

I see no visits from Slurp! on the logs but I have a few visits from Yahoo!

May sound like a stupid question, but is my site listed?

[2_much]

Have you tried looking for the actual domain in Yahoo? Also, perhaps you could try typing in different URL's of your site to see if they are in the database?

Also, do you have access to your logs to see if Slurp is visiting your subpages?

Finally, do you utilize redirects?

[Gonzalez]

Searching for www.domain.com shows no results from my site. Searching for site:www.domain.com or allinurl:www.domain.com shows 5000+ results.

Slurp is visiting my site daily, but only grabs robots.txt (I read this can be due to a ban, but my site is straight clear and IMO I'm following all the Y! rules).

I use some 301 redirects inside my domain. My site is about persons and I used to name pages like www.domain.com/person-###.htm and then I changed it to www.domain.com/person-name.htm. I setup 301 redirects through .htaccess to keep old traffic.

AFAIK the redirecting issues happen only when someone else links to you using www.somedomain.com/redirect.cgi?redirectto=yourdomain

[ronin]

I'm having the same problems. (Not using any redirects though). If I search for my homepage URL, it's there. If I search for on-page content, it's nowhere.

I have hundreds of inbound links from hundreds of sites. Slurp comes along once a day, sniffs about two pages or so and leaves.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Where are the Y! rules? Has anyone got a URL handy?

[bbonline]

I have had the exact same problem but nobody seems to know about it. It would be great if someone at Yahoo told us this is a penalty, temporarily or whatever. What a junk engine.

[asgdrive]

Gongalez,
I am dealing with the same issue. In my case I believe it is due to a penalty from Inktomi. (from 2 years ago... AGHHH). As this did not occur until after the Yahoo switched to Inktomi.
How are your listings in MSN? If inktomi has a penalty on you, your natural listings in MSN will be poor as well.

[elmarpanzenberger]

Hy Folks,
i have the same problem as you on one of my bigger sites. I get listet with site: and allinurl: searches but that's it.

[Gonzalez]

IMPORTANT UPDATE:
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I just found out that site:www.mydomain.com and allinurl:www.mydomain.com returns the same results on Yahoo and Google (same pages, same text and same sort order).

So, IMO, our sites may not be listed on Yahoo, as they are just still using some parts of the Google database, not theirs.

Please comment this.

[Alternative Future]

I am also having the same problems with my site.

So it would be nice if someone from Y could add some information on this...

-George

[figment88]

I'll add a me too. Site I work on occasionally doesn't show for phrases it should. There should not be a penalty.

I also noticed that Yahoo! search seems really slow. Maybe the darn thing is just broke.

[Dayo_UK]

I *think* that if there are no results for your search term then Yahoo uses the Google Index.

Eg - if your site is not listed in yahoo a site:www.domain.com check would pull results from G - however you will not appear in a search for your site in Yahoo (unless no results are returned by Yahoo Search Technology) - make sense?

When one of my sites eventually got listed in Yahoo the number of pages dropped on a site search from 2500+ to about 100 (Slow Slurp!) - I then eventually recieved some traffic from these pages.

[Gonzalez]

Dayo_UK,

You are right. I used a semi-specific query for my site and Yahoo returned a few SERP's that did not include my site.

Then I added search terms and "voila", it returned only my site, probably using G index.

[randle]

Try this command;

To see if you are in the Yahoo results type into the search box this exactly, url:http://www.widgets.com

If you use that and it comes up, sorry no information on that, your not in the results.

[helenp]

>>>To see if you are in the Yahoo results type into the search box this exactly, url:http://www.widgets.com

If you use that and it comes up, sorry no information on that, your not in the results. <<<<

sorry, thatīs not always true.........
donīt seem to be any golden rule.
Some sites are in index that way, but not in serps.

[twebdonny]

To see if you are in the Yahoo results type into the search box this exactly, url:http://www.widgets.com

That seems to be exacatly as it stands with us. Doing a search for widgets does not reveal our site, yet doing a search for www.widgets.com does; moreover,url:http://www.widgets.com in the search query shows no results either. We are in the Yahoo directory and have been for some time and were widely listed before the age old Ink penalty was drawn along in the changeover.