how to get yahoo to index my entire site

[jasyn]

so majority of my traffic is coming from google and i noticed that's because google has more of my site indexed then yahoo does.

google's indexed 4,770 pages of my site http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.advancespeedshop.com&hl=en
while yahoo's only indexed 234 pages of my site
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.advancespeedshop.com&bwm=p&bwms=p&fr=lo&fr2=seo-rd-se

i've added sitemaps and made it so that the site is seo friendly. what am i doing wrong? or is it a wait game and yahoo is just more picky?

[hans]

teaching an elephant to fly or an eagle to SCUBA dive might be easier than getting Y to index all pages. Y simple lacks the power, resources, and philosophy to accomplish such a great task as G does.

Even MSN/live now has surpassed Y results in referrers as a result of MSN's recent multiplication of crawl-efforts

Y eventually may have more and pages from your site - but it may take many months or many years and never may get near your real number of pages and also may always be many months behind real time publishing efforts.

[extremist]

you are not doing anything wrong, to get on yahoo needs more time than google. just keep working.

[jasyn]

okay then thanks :)

[gabibeowulfx]

a fast way to get noticed by yahoo is for your site to be bookmarked in delicious .. which is part of yahoo :P

[cosmocentral]

I generally more pages indexed on Yahoo then Google. However more traffic from Google.

[jasyn]

a fast way to get noticed by yahoo is for your site to be bookmarked in delicious .. which is part of yahoo :P

this is true?

[jasyn]

I generally more pages indexed on Yahoo then Google. However more traffic from Google.

because your site has been up longer? or something else you are doing?

[imnajam]

If you get listed in yahoo directory, your almost all pages will be indexed fast, try this :)

[hans]

this is true?

true ! see:

> whois icio.us
Domain Name: ICIO.US
Registrant Organization: Yahoo! Inc.

del. = sub.domain of icio.us

btw
another method to easier get into more major SE is to have your OWN account in
myYahoo
myGoogle
myMSN
... etc

and then ADD your own RSS-feed into your own account
hence that SE has to grap YOUR feed to display in your myXYZ.. account

no guarantee - but it works and helps in some cases and is FREE

and

by adding a widget in your blog or feeds like the one
AddThis.com
http://www.addthis.com/

this replaces ALL major "add to" widgets in one step

[jasyn]

thanks for all the tips. i'll try my luck with a delicious social bookmarking service if i can find one for cheap. if not i don't mind the traffic just from google .. i just hope with time yahoo will catch up x_X

[Minterest]

teaching an elephant to fly or an eagle to SCUBA dive might be easier than getting Y to index all pages.

Thats a good one... LOL.. Well, luckily all the 3 bots Google, MSN and Yahoo index my blog regularly but only Google sends traffic to it....

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[hnanan]

i didn't do anything and I have more pages indexed in yahoo than in google.

[hans]

Thats a good one... LOL.. Well, luckily all the 3 bots Google, MSN and Yahoo index my blog regularly but only Google sends traffic to it....

i agree
the BOT activity from all 3 is large - large enough to give reason for hope - but hope is no food for the soul - facts are and Y and MSN simply are too slow in getting bot activity converted into final indexing results and latter one into generic human traffic

I enjoy since years HUNDREDS of top10-top20 SERPS on a huge variety of actually used keywords relevfant to my site
yet
it is the popularity of the SE that makes Y and MSN drop far behind.

but

as posted a while earlier here MSNbot was a short burst of a month's MUCH more active botting

the amazing now is that while slurp was normal active as usual
almost at same day, may be 3-4 days ago BOTH SE startet a head to head race in IMPROVING indexing pages and BOTH started substantially sending more traffic
the funny is both started same day and bot almost head to head racing
FAR behind G but racing to catch UP
result= another 10% traffic increase the last few days :)

[stickycarrots]

it just takes time

[mcaronan]

Do ping your site to have fast and effective way of indexing by many search engines.

[BlueDevilMedia]

Are you using session ids on your site?

[Webaccess]

Thanks for the tip "gabibeowulfx". Hopefully It'll help me get indexed faster.

[jasyn]

Are you using session ids on your site?

no bots shouldn't get session ID's .. that option has been turned off for them. yahoo has some sites listed for my oscommerce .. but it's minimal compared to google. we are right now contemplating on whether or not to sign up for yahoo's directory or not if it ACTUALLY does get us indexed more. comments on that?

actually lol i just read the post below and it said it wasn't worth it =P