Yahoo mistaking main domain as subdomain?

Yahoo thinks our home page is a different URL

[monkeylytics]

My company is experiencing some weird problems with Yahoo. If you type in our brand name WidgetCo, you would expect to find something like www.widgetco.com as the first result. Instead Yahoo has decided to use www.widgetco.com/foo/bar/ which is some ancient URL that we 302 redirected to www.widgetco.com many years ago and nobody remembers.

For years, this has worked out fine. Yahoo would give our Y Directory listing plus the www.widgetco.com URL. But Yahoo decided to change its mind a few months ago and used the foo/bar URL with its Meta Description.

We now have a 301 re-direct on foo/bar to the canonical URL, but given the crawling frequency of this URL, this might not do us much good. Last time its content was re-indexed was 6 months ago. It does regularly crawl and index the new content of the www.widgetco.com home page though.

I took a look at our site through Yahoo Site Explorer. It has the www.widgetco.com URL in there, but it's oddly listed as a subdomain.

Any advice here? Kind of irritating.

Steve

[andrewshim]

I took a look at our site through Yahoo Site Explorer. It has the www.widgetco.com URL in there, but it's oddly listed as a subdomain.

hey Steve, I think I have the same problem. My site is also listed under Site Explorer, but it is also listed as a subdomain. Just out of curiosity, has your homepage's listing in the serps been replaced with internal pages when you search for your keywords?

example : my homepage used to be listed at #8 for a competitive key phrase. A couple of months ago, it was suddenly replace by /about.php and my homepage went in and out of oblivion.

andrew

[monkeylytics]

Just out of curiosity, has your homepage's listing in the serps been replaced with internal pages when you search for your keywords?

example : my homepage used to be listed at #8 for a competitive key phrase. A couple of months ago, it was suddenly replace by /about.php and my homepage went in and out of oblivion.

Hi Andrew,

Yes, that's what happened. For industryterm A, industryterm B, industryterm C that we're well known for, the www.widgetco.com/foo/bar/ is listed instead of just www.widgetco.com. This did wonders for our rankings on these terms as we went from a top ranked player to a bottom of the page player which isn't too surprising given that nobody links to the /foo/bar URL. We didn't even know that URL existed until we saw it in Y SERPs. :P

Oddly, just a few days ago, for a Yahoo query for industryterm A, Yahoo is now using our www.widgetco.com URL and our directory listing again. But the other industry terms B and C as well as our brand name still get the crappy /foo/bar URL.

Steve

[andrewshim]

Oddly, just a few days ago, for a Yahoo query for industryterm A, Yahoo is now using our www.widgetco.com URL and our directory listing again. But the other industry terms B and C as well as our brand name still get the crappy /foo/bar URL.

A couple of days ago, Yahoo rolled out an update. My /about.php page still scores everywhere except my homepage has come back but all on page #2 or a couple rungs lower. What the ...

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