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Is my site not optimized for Yahoo?

Ranking with all other engines but not Yahoo

         

JamaicanFood

2:09 am on Jul 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Is there something wrong with my site,

Yahoo has all but stopped indexing my pages stopping at 50 pages and not indexing any more but I made changes to my index page on my site yesterday and it has cached that page. That means its still slurping my pages. Ive got tons of info on my site and to no avail.

Could I be banned from Yahoo. I rank with all other serach engines even google for a search term. But only unless i put "my page title" will Yahoo return my site. This is getting me worried, infacto Im terrified as Yahoo is 30% of SE traffic, I would not want that. Granted my site really broke ground on July 1, 2006 as in all the pages were posted.

Ive got about 500.

I have been mulling over the decison of paying the USD$300 for submission into the directory but as a webportal I have a section that states "Jamaican adult websites". It gives links to as it states Adult websites with about 50 links.

Will Y consider me an adult site and request that I pay the $600.00. I have written to the Y Directory staff but you guessed it no reply. I dont know why I wanted to feel special anyway.

So can anyone help 1. why Y stopped indexing my pages and 2. will I be required to pay the $600.00

Help guys!

piatkow

3:33 pm on Jul 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

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If any search at all returns your site then you are not banned. If you think it is an adult content issue then repeat the enquiry with save search on and off.

I once found one of my sites incorrectly classified as adult as the title incorporated a place name containing the letters s, e and x

econman

8:25 pm on Aug 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



We have a similar problem; as an experiment we paid the money to get into the directory a couple of months ago. Zero impact. We are soon going to initiate their site reinclusion process.

Yahoo has plenty of info on their site explaining how you can better tell whether you have a problem. Unfortunately, it doesn't help you figure out what the problem is -- just confirm whether or not a problem exists (as opposed to merely being so far down the SERPs you don't get any traffic).