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I believe i have an over optimization penalty in Yahoo. Here is my situation. My site has 16,000 pages listed in yahoo when i do site:mydomain.com. But only 500 of my pages are actually listed in the index.
Of the 500 pages listed, yahoo seems to be accepting pages with the following structure more easily:
<title>word1 "keyword phrase"</title>
<h1>word1 "keyword phrase"</h1>
1 <span> of word1 "keyword phrase"
URL - mydomain.com/[a-z]/word1/keyword_phrase/
word1 is just a description of for the phrase i want to capture, something secondary that someone might type in. It is not the primary target. It is usually 1 or 2 words, maybe 3. Point is, when the TITLE and H1 tags have this structure Yahoo will index, but for stuff that looks like this:
<title>word1 word2 "keyword phrase"</title>
<h1>word1 word 2 "keyword phrase"</h1>
URL - mydomain.com/[a-z]/word1_word2/keyword_phrase/
1 <span> of word1 word 2 "keyword phrase"
it doesn't index it at all. I've read of people having problems with Yahoo and H1 tags and was wondering if anyone has any ideas?
Is it because there is TOO MUCH repetition between the TITLE, H1, SPAN, and URL? Am i setting off an over optimization filter, or dup content filter? Changing the title, and obviously the url, isn't an option for me. but i can tweak the H1 or Span terms
Has anyone had experience with this and can they shed some light on this? I don't have any problems with google at all i think this is strange. site:mydomain.com registers 16,000 pages. Is it normal for only 500 pages to be indexed?
