Must be banned?

Discussion in 'SEO' started by chiefshuddle, Jul 6, 2005.

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    Can anyone that knows the in's and out's of yahoo take a look at my site and see if you can find any reason why I would be banned from them?

    http://www.chiefshuddle.com

    Google and MSN have tons of my pages indexed but yahoo still only has the main page (a couple of subdomains) and one of my RSS feeds in their index. Multiple times I have tried to contact them with no luck.

    The funny part is that several of my keyword phrases still rank very high with them which is odd.

    Anyway, I have read all over that having a site with only the root domain listed when Slurp visits frequently is a sign of a ban or penalty.

    Note: I have been listed in yahoo for almost a year and Slurp pulls about 700K or more from my site nightly.
     
    chiefshuddle, Jul 6, 2005 IP
  2. miracle

    miracle Peon

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    #2
    Yeah, I have a couple of pages index by google and MSN but only 1 page index by yahoo. Just wonder why yahoo don't visit my site.
     
    miracle, Jul 6, 2005 IP
  3. chiefshuddle

    chiefshuddle Banned

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    #3
    No yahoo experts out there?
     
    chiefshuddle, Jul 7, 2005 IP
  4. mcfox

    mcfox Wind Maker

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    You're obviously not banned by Yahoo otherwise you wouldn't have any pages showing at all.

    I have read, I believe on these forums somewhere, that Yahoo index sub-pages which are linked to directly from external sites in order to gain more 'natural' SERPs.
     
    mcfox, Jul 7, 2005 IP
  5. chiefshuddle

    chiefshuddle Banned

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    Well, thats what I thought at first until I read everywhere that you can still be in the index once with your root domain and still be banned.

    Honestly at this point I don't know what to believe.
     
    chiefshuddle, Jul 7, 2005 IP
  6. mcfox

    mcfox Wind Maker

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    Yeah, Yahoo is a bit of a mystery just now. I'm not certain if your information is correct or not. I suspect probably not since being banned usually means no pages in the index at all but I wouldn't bet my life on that.
     
    mcfox, Jul 7, 2005 IP
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    Don't overthink the issue:

    It could be a simple matter of Yahoo not being able to crawl, index, follow and cache pages.

    Did you know that your main page of over 800 code errors when attempting to check validation at W3C?

    Do you have a robots.txt file?

    You have DOCTYPE listed as XHTML, but have HTML tag closings.

    Your page has Flash, which doesn't play well with all engines.

    Your page is also very heavy with js and other script.

    Yahoo may not have banned you at all - you could be banning Yahoo from being able to crawl beyond your index page.

    Good Luck and Happy Ranking ~
    w®m
     
    wrmineo, Jul 8, 2005 IP
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