Yahoo --Indexed but no ranking at all.

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Yahoo --Indexed but no ranking at all.

chickenpaw

10:01 pm on Jan 22, 2007 (gmt 0)

I have about 6 sites running on same platform with the same promotion methods.

2 of the websites have dropped from listings in both MSN and YAHOO. They are both fully indexed but we went from 1000's of visits a day to 0. Slurp comes everyday and indexes both sites. Both sites do great in Google. This problem has last now for about 6 months.

The other 4 sites do great in Yahoo and MSN and GOOGLE.

These sites are all different industries...from golf ecommerce to clothing ecommerce.

martinibuster

7:46 pm on Jan 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

Seems either significant or coincidental that MSN and Yahoo dropped your sites.

Is there something in your promotional methods that you suspect?

funandgames

4:31 am on Jan 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

Check your outgoing links.

cangoou

2:49 pm on Jan 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

Check your outgoing links.

What could be checked about outgoing links? Is there a maximum number yahoo tolerates per page / site?

funandgames

3:00 pm on Jan 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

It is who you link to that freaks the algo out.

marketingmagic

7:55 pm on Jan 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

Yahoo's been punishing us for almost 2yrs now, despite having launched a completely new site that cost us over 200K, being in touch with a Yahoo insider, and their claims we aren't penalized.

No problems with indexing, crawling, but we haven't shown up for ANY of our main searches since mid 2005. We run a Perl based site, which ranks very well in Google and so so in MSN. So I don't think this has anything to do with it, but I wouldn't completely rule it out.

We're what you'd call an authority, an actual manufacturer and our site has more content than all our competitors combined.

I'd love to understand why this is happening and what we can do to correct it... Frustrated would be a major understatement... :-(

cangoou

8:09 am on Jan 31, 2007 (gmt 0)

It is who you link to that freaks the algo out.

Thanks for your reply. How can I see if Y doesn't "like" a site I'm linking to? As I said, G and MSN love my page - but Y doesn't.

CainIV

8:03 am on Feb 3, 2007 (gmt 0)

Yahoo seems to frown on any type of significant 'listing site' lately. If you have a directory on your website, my bet would be to take a hard look at that first...