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These sites rank very well in all other search engines and SPAM, keyword stuffing etc are not an issue and the site is very spider friendly.
Has anybody else had this experience and how do you rectify a situation such as this?
But then I got brand new sites with many pages indexed?
So what is the reason? Hmm
Im 100% sure my site is as clean as it gets
It is popular
Has a lot of content
so whats the reason, well i have paid for inclusion for 14 month ago, a few month before the end the site became index only, so I can only think of that, if you have paid before, yahoo knows you earn a little of the site and when you dont pay again you are index only.
That what I think is the reason, because many big sites have this problem, but then Yahoo can not complaine that the visitors search on Google, Wisenut,MSN, ASK to find the pages they are looking for. Another thing Yahoo is a more money making company minded company then Google, Google has a few rules insite the company which mst be followed
One thing is for sure I will NEVER pay again.
I am thinking maybe there is some kind of duplicate filter. But google list's all my sites? It can't be the size of a site can it?
Alot of my sites are pretty big and one of yahoo's guidelines is not to have too many pages. Except I need all my pages.
Search engines stress me out!
I don't think this is the case as I don't have duplicate content on my sites, something I have been very careful about.
"yahoo's guidelines is not to have too many pages"
This is something I haven't seen heard before and it seems to fly in the face of Google who seem to award bigger sites. After all if you take the advice you read everyday in the Google News forum to keep adding new content you are going to end up with a site that has "too many pages."
Like Zeus my sites are as clean as they come and they have ranked in Yahoo for 3-4 years now. Some more feedback by members on the paid inclusion argument would be very interesting...
hehe. But do OTHER sites have your content on them?
But does Yahoo have a similar problem? Maybe?
The problem I seen with the index pages indexed only were some of my sites were cross linked.
They were not cross linked like a->b and b->a, They were cross linked by the internal pages only. and not the home pages. Maybe Yahoo is filtering this out now?
The new sites I built were not cross linked like this. They just had one link from one of my sites home pages to jump start them a little.
I just assumed that cross linking was page a-> page b and b->a which was bad. But it seems that they are counting entire sites now?
So my sites are no longer cross linked that way either. The only way to figure this stuff out is to test and learn from your mistakes. It's not like there is a manual for the search engines. They just give you general instructions that don't mean much.
It's like opening up the directions for putting together your new bicycle and they say...
Step 1, Put together bicycle.
Step 2, Ride.
Sometimes it would help if they were a little more detailed in their instructions?
I think you might be on to something here. I have done some checking across my sites and other competitors for cross linking and all the sites I have checked that rank well in Yahoo were not cross linked.
Might this be the answer?
But it's the same to me if you have 15 websites and link every page of those sites to one website's home page. Or linking all your sites together?
What's the big deal?
I agree that sitewide links should only count as one link but filtering out all pages that cross link is just pointless?
I guess they are trying to make it fair for the big companies that can't rank well. Big companies are some of the biggest babies I ever seen!
But it's the same to me if you have 15 websites and link every page of those sites to one website's home page. Or linking all your sites together?What's the big deal?
Cross linking is one of the oldest penalties out there. The big deal is that people build networks of sites then artificially inflate their inbound links. Bad SEO 101. ;)
on google its allinurl:www. or inurl:www
I have two other newer sites (all three sites are crosslinked a little where they compliment) that have most pages in the Yahoo index.
I know of quite a few others having Yahoo problems since Feb. so I think they are tweaking the engine and adding back sites very slowly.
The only think I can think is that I closed my Overture account at the beginning of the year. Maybe Yahoo retaliated. So, I'm thinking of re-opening the Overture acct now.
Maybe that made yahoo start over fresh and index only my home page and then next update include the new pages?
I seen yahoo do this to brand new sites where they indexed the home page and then later on they indexed the rest of the site.
Of course my new sites allready had the 301 non www to www when I built them so they weren't affected.
What do you think?
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In terms of removing the penalty. I'm not sure that you can have penalties automatically removed. Perhpas if it's an overlinkage penalty, you could remove the internlinkage and monitor to see if the pages come back.
Its just one thing why are so many of those that has got this part ban also been a member of a yahoo including program.
wrote to Y about it and they TOLD ME it was a penalty but were vague about why.
I cut all inter-site links and cleaned all ads off front page and wrote back saying I had "resolved the problem" (which was rich seeing as I didn't even know what the problem was!) and I never heard back from them.
but....within three days, I saw that my site had ten pages in the index, then 20, then 30. They added about ten pages a day and the total now stands at 190! 2000 more to go!
Cross linking is one of the oldest penalties out there. The big deal is that people build networks of sites then artificially inflate their inbound links.
What is meant by cross linking exactly?
What is meant by cross linking exactly?
Cross linking is when you have excessive linking between your pages.
A good example is this:
Page a links to B-C-D-E
Page b links to a-c-d-e
etc,
Do you mean sites or pages?
I understood it to be where
Pages on site A link to pages on site B and site C
and
Pages on site B link to pages on site A and site C
and so on.
Whereas
Pages on site A link to pages on site B and site C
and
Pages on site B link to pages on site C
is not cross linking.
Anyone?
that is what creates the network which Y and others don't like...especially between unrelated sites ...knitting and WMD for example.
Anyone know who I can contact, so I know what they dont like, I just cant find ANYTHING wrong.
I too have lost all listings (around 300) except for the main index page. The Yahoo slurp is all over the site though.
I checked the domain early this moring in Yahoo and it showed a about 20 pages re- indexed with a rankings less than before. I checked again a few hours later and these had disappeared again with just the index page remaining.
The same thing happened the previous day. A few pages re-indexed and then gone again.
Looking at the logs, its seems the slurp can't get enough.
Hope its just a re-jig and I'll be back soon. The site has not broken any rules as far as I can see.
Anyone else had this problem?
What can I do, as some of you I also just have my index page indexed in Yahoo.
Another thing does anyone here have the exact meta/robots text to exclude yahoo bots for search and images, because if they dont include the whole site why sould I be listed at all and I do get some visits from searches www.mydomain.com but thats just not enogh so I whant them to go to another se to look for my site.
