Well I had a site recently that I am pretty sure was on some kind of banned list with yahoo. It was a domain I picked up that used to host a site, so I am guessing a penalty with it had to do with previous usage. I contacted Yahoo about it and within the next two days my description and title for the site became accurate and the next day I started ranking for keywords. I thought all was beginning to go well... Only problem then was I had no other pages in the index from that site, but I figured that would take time. Then a few days later Yahoo dropped the page completely. I dropped them another note, but this time they just gave me a standard form reply that was not terribly useful. Anyone have any advice when a site is completely missing? Should I just wait and see what happens? Nothing really changed on the site to cause this drop out, and perhaps it is just a hiccup...
Have you tried submitting a URL list? This is a text file with one URL per line that you want Yahoo to index. Sample. Have you tried Site Explorer? http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
I did try site explorer... I haven't done the url list.. but I have been meaning to do it.. I can create a list easy enough. Thanks for the advice. I will try that.
Nice! - I hadn't seen that yet.... I'm getting so used to Google being the innovator and Yahoo the immatator, but not this time....
I don't think the explorer is related to this...but you can still try if you want. It's definitely a serious penalty if your main page is not listed for more than 48hours. Do you have any cues what kind of content or sort of linking this domain had? The best thing is to contact yahoo, which you've already did. Also present them with a page that has good content and not just a blank page or a "link resources" page. They might change their opinion on this domain and re-include you. The "owner" of the domain definitely did something that flagged this penalty. Can you post the link?
It is my cowboys site in my sig.. I thought everything was okay.. I sent them a follow up email again today and they sent me back a response that it could take 2-3 weeks to show up in the index. here is a partial excerpt: I tried to go back with the wayback machine but there is no real content archived there and it was from 5 plus years ago.
Yes, Site Explorer is nice. It tell the whole structure of site. No. of files in particular folder if they are indexed.
lol...now you're gunna tell everybody you're my husband? p.s. the explorer is just an "operator mirror" of Y! serps results. If you can't find you on the serps you won't be on the explorer either!