how come yahoo isnt indexing me but google is?

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by hitboy, Jun 11, 2007.

  1. #1
    I thought this was strange... for one of my sites the indexed pages looks like this..

    Engine Total No. of Pages
    Altavista 4
    Google 8,970
    Yahoo 4
    MSN 5
    All the Web 4

    Why does this happen exactly? and how can i be indexed in yahoo or are they just slow?
     
    hitboy, Jun 11, 2007 IP
  2. ThreeGuineaWatch

    ThreeGuineaWatch Well-Known Member

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    In my experience, MSN and Yahoo! do take a little longer to revisit and index the full site. Have you added a Yahoo! sitemap here: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ ? That helped speed up Yahoo! indexing for me.
     
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  3. Greg Carnegie

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    Yahoo indexing speed is very low.

    Even after submitting Yahoo sitemaps, they indexed only half of my pages, and i am waiting over 4 months, so i guess you will also need to wait for some time.

    Moreover without yahoo sitemaps you aren't getting anywhere with Yahoo.
     
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  4. hitboy

    hitboy Well-Known Member

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    so i need yahoo sitemaps i dont really understand what that means...
     
    hitboy, Jun 12, 2007 IP
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    dopiitv Well-Known Member

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    Just make a sitemap using afree tool and submit it to them. You could download this tool, or use a web based one like this tool.
     
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    figarro Well-Known Member

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    I have a website which is half year old and Yahoo only indexed my homepage, even after submitting a sitemap. I know it's slow, but that slow....
     
    figarro, Jun 13, 2007 IP
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    The older the site, better does MSN and Yahoo index the site...thats my experience.

    Yes, you can make and submit sitemaps..that helps a bit too.
     
    agnivo007, Jun 13, 2007 IP
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    gr8liverpoolfan Notable Member

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    Analyse the crawling patterns of the bot using your logs. That might reveal certain things.
     
    gr8liverpoolfan, Jun 13, 2007 IP