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Had a site accepted for reinclusion in Yahoo. Have been watching it closely. site explorer said 15 pages indexed. Have got 0 referals. site explorer then said only 4 pages indexed. Send another request for inclusion no responce but once again 15 pages are indexed.
How long should it take to get a full site in there? They said 6 weeks when the site was accepted and it has been 3 months now.
Have been getting no replys to my emails at all.
Anyone?
I went URL only in Yahoo and filed a request. Emails from Yahoo seemed to indicate a problem. After about 3 weeks I saw the indexing return to normal. This was timed just near an October update - I then returned to "normal" positions.
Someone else mentioned this to me and when I checked my logs this was spot on correct:
When you're "OK" the yahoo spidering activity is what you might expect. I get like one hit to the robots.txt file for every 3 - 10 hits to a website page. However, when under some kind of penalty, not only does spidering decrease, but the ratio of robot hits to page hits is nearly 1:1. It's almost like clockwork robot hit, page hit, disappear, robot hit, page hit, disappear...
Tex ... I will hang on and hope for a while with this in mind
Billy ... Emails from Yahoo seemed to indicate a problem .. do you mean Yahoo was having a problem with its index in general or your site?
Is there any other way of getting someone at yahoo to look into a problem? The site is 98% origional content which gets regular product price updates and additional information added quite regularly.
When was the last Yahoo update?
Did yahoo send you an email saying that you were reintegrated into their SERPS after having been penalized?
thanks,
Emails hinted that my site may have been penalized for some reason.
Nothing has been announced, but concensus here seems to indicate there was an update about 2 weeks ago.
Yahoo has confirmed its not a ban.
I checked my logs and now i seem to get their crawler on the site (http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp/)
Does this mean the site ( inner pages) are being looked into for re-inclusion in future?
I finally received a reply other than the stadard "canned' answer saying the site was being re-indexed with no guarantees on how long it woudl take,etc. etc.
Almost 60 days to teh day after I received that letter, the site sprang into the Yahoo search index with a bang with over 100 top 5 listings (mostly #1) and every page indexed (amounting to a roughly 4000 per day jump in visitors).
So....to those who say a site can never be brought back from the dead, I beg to differ.
This was a site we purchased that had employed the blackest of blackhat SEO by it's former owners (cloaking, redirects, you name it). We cleaned up the site, added a ton of fresh content, did away with anything remotely SEO-like (other than good standards-based design) and started begging yahoo/google once per month using a well-written, long from letter detailing what the site had done wrong in the past, and what we did to clean it up and bring it in compliance.
A pain in the butt to be sure....but that little purchase for less than $4k which was thought dead on arrival by it's former owners is now chugging along at 10,000 uniques per day (from all sources) and growing....and bringing in 5 digits in income a month.
Don't lose hope!
