I cant figure out Yahoo for the life of me. My arcade, maxiarcade.com does well with MSN and reasonable with Google, but Yahoo seems to have completely ignored it. Here are some details from iwebtools link pop checker. Google 340 MSN 4,235 Yahoo 0 Altavista 6,780 Ask Jeeves 0 Total Listings 11355 I got a total of 4,235 backlinks...all of which MSN has found by the the looks of it..Not sure what the go is with Altavista, I got PR5, predicted 6. Anyone got any ideas of why this could be happening? All help greatly appreciated.
Yahoo can sometimes be a problem if your site does not have unique content. You should also use mod-rewrite on your urls.
I notice when i check indexed pages in Web CEO, that only around 10 pages come up as indexed in Yahoo, where as MSN has just about everyone. Google has about 80, although some very similiar of course. I notice the few Yahoo has indexed have more text content than the pure games pages like maxiarcade.com/page-help etc, so I think lack of text content could be a profound problem for Yahoo. Also just how bad is Javascript for Yahoo? and given that I have those rotating banners at the top of the page being loaded an a iframe...how bad is that as well?
yahoo.com: link:http://www.maxiarcade.com/ - 6,510 site:www.maxiarcade.com - 1,210 so what is wrong ?
Mmm ok thats weird. I must be using all faulty tools, i should have done that the first time. Use to doing that with google. Still i need to improve my rankings pretty dramatically, but thats a seperate issue i guess.
No... it's not your site only. I posted this in WMW forum since noticing it a month ago... When you use MANY link popularity check tools on the web, you get ZERO from Y! and Teoma! As first, I also thought it was just my site... until I checked a competitor's site and voila! same thing. Then I checked link popularity for google dot com and yahoo dot com... and guess what... they returned ZERO!!!! I think Y! may be doing something in the background or purposely blocking link popularity tools.
Well that would make sense, because ive been using Web CEO and i mean that software is pro...its one of the best all round SEO tools out there and its unlikely to be a bug at there end. None of the reporting in that product provides Yahoo data, but for google and MSN it never fails, so its clearly something going on with Yahoo. Perhaps blocking queries from certain software...im not sure.
I have had my blog (premiumposts.com) up for a few months now and get almost 50% of my traffic from google, while the rest is from MSN and other referrring sites. However I have never had a single visitor from Yahoo? I haven't even had a keyword ranked in yahoo. In my case I am hoping it is just a waiting game.