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Only Home Page in Rankings

The only page that appears in Yahoo results is the home page.

         

DavidJHonda

5:08 pm on May 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi,
Having a problem understanding Yahoo rankings.

When doing a search on key terms for Google and MSN, the home page appears for certain terms and sub-pages appear for other terms.

However, when doing a search on key terms in Yahoo, only the home page appears as a result. So, it looks like Yahoo only returns the home page as a search result.

For the competitors for those terms, sub-pages do appear...often above our organic listing.

I do know that all the sub-pages are being indexed by Yahoo...on a regular basis.

Anyone have any idea what might cause this? We are adding meta-tags to our pages to keep Yahoo from using Yahoo Directory titles and page descriptions...not sure if this would matter.
Thanks,
David

crobb305

4:45 pm on May 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



How old is the domain? Are there incoming links to any of your internal pages?

DavidJHonda

4:02 am on May 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



The website is 6 months old...but the domain is 7 or 8 years old. And, there are links to the other pages on the web site.

Sharpseo

9:17 am on May 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



It's not the tags. Just takes a while to get multiple pages indexed in Yahoo, even if you have good backlinks and solid on-site SEO. They have a pretty long getting-to-know-you period.

Some heavy-hitting links would speed up the indexing. But that's harder/riskier these days.