Yahoo indexing trouble

Google, msn and many more engines are indexing the site but not yahoo

[leveni]

Hi All

I have a client that has full index listings in MSN/Live and Google but in Yahoo only his domain is being indexed and cashed, no other pages from the site are being seen.

This is a Google PR 4 site that has been around for 8 years.

Anyone got any ideas as to why Yahoo doesn't seem to like this site?

[martinibuster]

Cross linking?
Paid links?
Sliced and diced content?
Could be many things.

Look into your backlinks, review your promotion strategy. There may be something aggressive (even if you may not think it's aggressive) about your promotional efforts. You know it best.

[leveni]

thanks for the advice martinibuster i cant find any signs of anything untoward. Also wouldn't the mentioned also affect the other search engines?

[ddwebguru]

i have some same issue, some pages are indexed but other is not even sitemap is not index, there is some thing algo issue? yahoo robot can't go through your pages.
you can check it in text browser like > lynx
or your content is duplicate? check it out........

[ddwebguru]

one more thing you can submit your site in yahoo account just like google webmaster account, you have to create a yahoo account. try it.....

[leveni]

Thanks ddwebguru. Tried this and as i thought no problems showing, it is finding all text and links easily and clearly. Got a Firefox extension of the browser neat little tool. No duplicate content either. Its a real pain this one as msn and google have no trouble indexing the site at all. I have also already subd the site to yahoo, but my client tells me this has been happening for at least a year (some point within that time yahoo should have picked the site up)

[walkman]

>> in Yahoo only his domain is being indexed and cashed, no other pages from the site are being seen.

classic sign of a Yahoo ban /penalty. They have extremely long memories and it's not good news, as most never get back in.