Yahoo used to never index my pages. Only about 9 pages for 4 or 5 months. Now for some reason they crawl everything quickly. Now I have almost 1000. Site has been active since Oct. 2004.
Are you sure it is simply 2, perform site:yourdomain.com It takes me about 3-4 months for a new site to get any traffic from yahoo.
i think yahoo were the 'accidental' originators of the sandbox.... sometimes you wont be seen for a year or more...then just when you are up to 5000 pages.. it drops back by 4000
I think we owe Y a round of applause. @sadcox: yep, only two pages, I did a site search, shocked the hell out of me. I guess I'll give her another two months before I let the worry sink in.
You know if you point some of your Coop weight to interior pages you will get them indexed by Yahoo quicker.
Yahoo has the least amount indexed for me as well, slowly but surely more are being added, but they are slower then the others.
I just wonder why they send a mass of spiders to the site and then only index 17 pages in my case.... Im nowhere to be found on yahoo unless you look at my backlinks from other sites. MSN is cool I dropped from 4 to 6 this week and google is just like yahoo... Time will tell. Chico
We've changed our URL structure a couple of times and have been using 301s religiously. Google has been picking them up steadily and we're cleaning out our backlog of 301s. Which makes us happy because it's one less thing for our servers to have to check and one less thing to go wrong. Yahoo has evidently embedded the old URL and is not giving it up easily. We can look at the cache and see that Yahoo remembers the URL from last year even though it definitely knows that it's been 301'd. I can provide specific examples if you like. We're now 404ing the old URLs in an effort to get Yahoo to let go. We've had a couple of successes but almost entirely not. The advice I keep seeing with Yahoo is to be patient. I hope that works out for us ...
I have the same effect on one of my sites, 7 pages indexed in Yahoo and 21,400 pages indexed in Google although I am #5 in Yahoo and #10 in Google for the most relevant keyword... so pages indexed doesn't really have anything to do with how good you rank because normally it will be your homepage that becomes Top 10 and not one of thousands of sub-pages that might be indexed.
well MSN also "only" indexes around 4000 pages of the 21,800 pages Google has indexed, my ranking in MSN and Yahoo is higher though and I get more traffic from them, so I really see no reason why I should care about the amount of pages indexed for my page.... I have my own php search installed which has its own index so I don't rely on a Google site search e.g.
i obviously recieve very few refferals from yahoo. That's what I'm looking for. But as others have said, I guess it's best to wait to get out of the sandbox before worrying.
uhm actually Yahoo doesn't have a sandbox effect... and I have to say that I only receive 7% referrals from Yahoo as well although I am better ranked than on Google from which I receive 11% (almost all of the rest is MSN) but that's because really few people use Yahoo, many use MSN and still most use Google.