yahoo isn't updating my sites

sites updated 3months ago still showing as old sites in yahoo

[hughie]

I currently have two sites that i updated around the same time 3 months ago. They both have lots of links pointing at them and are in the dmoz etc.. Google saw the new pages and re-freshed it's cache within a few days of them shifting over to the new design.

Yahoo is still displaying my old content for both of those sites, one of those sites is still doing very nicely in the search results even though it hasn't been spidered for aggges.

Is there any way to get them to re-index the sites without having to cough up any cash?

ta,
hughie

[robotsdobetter]

They will update it, just give it time. SEO is about time and if you don't got time than maybe you should get a new day-job. You can't have to many links if it's not spidering it. The dmoz is not as powerful as you think and is over rated.

[hughie]

Both sites have plenty of links, both are PR 5 in google, both listed nicely in the new MSN SE, both not being spidered by yahoo?

strange stuff...

[robotsdobetter]

Are you using JavaScript, CSS or Flash? Make sure you are not blocking them with the robots.txt.

[jo1ene]

Your problem probably isn't links. I have Google crawling all over my site EVERY day. Yahoo gets to it maybe once a week, on page at a time. My entire site is up to date in G for any given week. MY Y listings are ANCIENT. It's Y's problem, not yours in my estimation.

[hughie]

site is very straight forward (tables, html, css controling text size, font etc but nothing else) and i've not got a robots.txt file so it shouldn't be rocking the boat there.

Looks like it could be a Y problem like you say jo1ene.

ta,
hughie

[cgrantski]

Yahoo's spider can't deal with JavaScript or CSS?

[AmericanBulldog]

It seems that Yahoo does not go real deep into sites as quickly as G, however your index page should update within a few days if you are being spidered.

[extremegolfer]

Yahoo is becoming less and less a real search engine, and more and more a money hungry machine. Ive had a site that is listed on Google, and DMOZ, and gets crawled by the awesome googlebot everyday. I had submitted my site to Yahoo via the "free" submission Yahoo offers 3 months ago. To date, they have crawled my site once, and that was about 6 weeks ago. Since then, I have changed my site's title, meta tags, content, and yet Yahoo still displays all my old information, because it never crawled my site again. So I decided to pay them the ridiculous $299 inclusion fee, and walla my site was crawled 22 times the first day, and 25 times the second day, and so on...They just want money, they dont care for search results. It time to boycott Yahoo!

[yowza]

They crawl my site just fine without paying. However, they have only listed 200 pages of the 2000 that they have crawled in the past two months. I guess you just have to be patient.

[Rollo]

I get crawled everyday by Yahoo, but it won't index my sub-pages. I've been waiting for months now... How long does this take?

I agree, this is Yahoo's fault... but unfortunately our problem. Yahoo posted record revenues just recently.

Has anyone gotten a new page indexed by Yahoo search in the last three months?

[Marcia]

They crawl just fine, and a lot. But their results are as crusty as old rye bread. They *really* need to update once in a while.

[helenp]

I wonder what they do with all pages spidered and where they save them?
Is it a sandbox or other reasons?
I had 2 or 3 deepspiderings, but only between 10-17 pages indexed from nearly 300 pages.

[helenp]

appended, maybe offtopic....
Donīt understand, yahoo.com co.uk, atw and altavista has same pages of mines indexed, normally 17 depending on data centers for the moment.

Inktomi pure search has 2 pages indexed,
and msn.com has 2 pages indexed but 1 is diferent than pure Inktomi search?