Is Yahoo slow to update?

or is it just me?

[Abrexa_UK]

We got a client's site accepted into Yahoo on the 5th June. It is now the 16th June, and the site still doesn't appear in the search results. It appeared in both of its categories a day or two after submission, but is no where to be seen in the search results on either yahoo.com or uk.yahoo.com.

Even searching on the site title doesn't bring up any results.

Has Yahoo simply not updated since then? I don't recall Yahoo normally taking this long. Am I simply being impatient?

I am also worried that since Yahoo is taking so long, the site is going to have lost its "new" status by the time it updates, and thus won't get that initial ranking boost.

[john316]

For "search" you may want to check the title and description they gave you. If either one of those don't contain the KW or KW phrase, you still have time to submit an appeal. Without the KW in the title or desc., search won't find ya.

[2_much]

It does take a while Abrexa. Is it in now?

[JamesR]

I had a fairly quick turn around on the last site, never had quite the delay that you have had.

[Abrexa_UK]

Well, just tried several searches to find the site again and it still isn't appearing.

john, the site's title has an easily searchable word within it. Also, wrt key phrases, it has its principle single keyword twice in the category, once in the title, twice in the description and once in the URL (hyphen separated). If anything, this should be appearing at the top of the search results for that single word.

[Rumbas]

Try checking the New sections [uk.dir.yahoo.com]. Sometimes they apear there before they go into the results.

Is it .com pr co.uk?

[eljefe3]

There hasn't been any movement in the past week or so at yahoo that I've seen.

But I have had the experience of getting a new site in, only for it not to appear until 3 weeks later without the "new" graphic next to it. Sometimes errors do occur.

[Dpeper]

Yahoo Slow are you kidding? There always fast. Wait a second.... ;)

[Abrexa_UK]

Rumbas, it did appear in the New section on the appropriate day, and in the 2 categories.

It is a '.co.uk' domain. One category is in the UK hierarchy and the other is in the main Business tree.

Interestingly, it has now appeared in the Yahoo.com results on a specific title search, but still nothing in the UK results, and it isn't carrying a 'new' tag either. Even on the title search, the site appears 3rd, behind two sites that feature the title only as separate words in the description.

I have tried doing a search on its main keyword (the one that appears everywhere), and the site doesn't feature in the top 400 results (I gave up), behind sites that feature the word only in their category an no where else. It is like it is being penalised already.

[Rumbas]

If you saw it the New section, it is in there for sure.

>bad ranking

It could be due to this:
Google PR directly influencing Yahoo directory results? [webmasterworld.com]
There's a general concensus that if the site is brand new and has no PR yet, this could influence your rankings.

Furthermore Yahoo shows some "different" results depending on where and how you search (UK sites/non UK sites)

[Abrexa_UK]

PR 2 on the front page at the moment. We haven't really started on the link popularity work yet.

Still, I haven't seen this before with a Yahoo listing; it is normally much faster to include sites within the search results - usually a couple of days at the most.

[JamesR]

What a great business tactic, hike prices than offer a discount! Sounds like they are learning from Looksmart.