So. to recap, at the time of this post I have ~24,000 pages indexed at google and ~8,000 by MSN. And I have.... 2 pages by yahoo. So perplexed, I emailed them about a week ago and their canned response is below. I think my site is not indexed because it has a lot of inter domain links. But IMO, its very usable. From End users I have gotten mostly compliments, so the stupid crawler (or their policy) shouldn't complain if a human being isn't. OK. Here it is in its full and ugly glory: *****BELOW IS THE YAHOO MESSAGE*** Hello, Thank you for taking the time to write us. Yahoo!'s Site Guidelines are designed to ensure that poor-quality pages do not degrade the user experience in any way. Unfortunately, not all web pages contain information that is valuable to a user. Some pages are created deliberately to trick the search engine into offering inappropriate, redundant, or poor-quality search results; this is often called "spam". Yahoo! does not want these pages in the index. Our guidelines help us insure the quality of our index. Below are some answers to common questions regarding this issue: Q: What are some of the common reasons that a site may be in found in violation of Yahoo!'s Content Policy Guidelines? A: Yahoo!'s Content Policy Guidelines (http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/deletions/deletions-05.html) outline what we are and are not looking for in pages that we index. Listed below are some of the more common reasons that a site may violate these guidelines: -Pages dedicated to directing the user to another page. -Pages that have substantially the same content as other pages - Cloaking (showing crawlers deceptive content about a site) - Massive domain interlinking - Use of affiliate programs without the addition of substantial unique content - Use of reciprocal link programs (aka "link farms") - Hidden text - Excessive keyword repetition Q: If my site is found to be in violation of Yahoo!'s Content Policy Guidelines, can I use the Yahoo! Search Submit inclusion program? A: All pages submitted to Yahoo! Search Submit are editorially reviewed. If a site does not comply with Yahoo!'s Content Policy Guidelines, it is likely to be rejected by the Search Submit program. For answers to other questions you may have regarding Yahoo! Search, please see: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/ For answers to other questions you may have regarding the Yahoo! Directory, please see: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/dir/ Search & Directory Support Yahoo! Inc.
not a helpfull reply from them then. All I can think is that they're penalising you because it's a directory, I don't know how many sites you've got in the directory, but I would have thought that it would be considered different to other directories. OK, so the content isn't unique - but then neither is yahoo's directory. I'd send them another email asking for something other than generic crap.
Did you pay for results? Not that it matters, they guarantee nothing either way. I say that the words search engine tell the bot, competition, do not list though. But I'm guessing.
This thread was started at 2005 and now 2011. So today yahoo have alot of changes lot of new application and provides more reliable search results. Yahoo show lot confidence in search market.
OMG............it happened long back. Thanks for informing Alina because I have not yet seen the date and thought it has been started today itself.