Hi there, Hello to you all in the forum. I am having terrible trouble getting anywhere in Yahoo's SERP's. My site has been live for about 18 months and Yahoo has indexed pages from it but I am nowhere at all in the their SERPs. This is causing me the obvious problems that I am also not getting listed in the engines that use Yahoo results. I am at the moment on a major IBL campaign with a sepecific keyword. During this 6 weeks or so I have seen my SERP places moving steadily on Google and MSN. By no means am I there but on MSN I am now ranked 5 (originally about 120) and on Google I am ranked 21 or so (originally not found ) for the keyword I am optimising for. Yahoo shows literally thousands (I think about 120,000) for my site under a linkdomain: search and Google is only showing 35. I am completely confused with Yahoo. Have I done something completely stupid with them that has me banned? I even have submitted a sitemap to them but to no avail. I am no.1 in their Directory if you search for the keyword so that really confuses me.
Hi there, I have submitted to over 500 directories in the past two months, that is why (I think ) that my Google and MSN rankings are steadily climbing. I know absoulutely nothing about press releases. Can you recommend anywhere I can read up on the what, why, where and who about them?
1. use yahoo site explorer - submit your site in your site explorer 2. submit your RSS feeds to yahoo 3. submit your YAHOO sitemap in your site explorer as well 4. check the results yahoo has from your site personally - as you know Y had a db crash/loss for many of its originally indexed sites. see if yahoo has all your pages AND the correct details from your pages for example if Y says you have x-thousand pages click on the search result page 901-1000 and have a look at the details I had similar problems after their crash in May 2006 and found that Y lost all data and had ten thousands of NON-existing pages Y has human contact and is most efficient in solving such problems - however YOU have to provide evidence, facts, details that Y can easily verify within seconds or so IF you have proof of a db failure - Y will most likely act within days to correct. they repeatedly did so in my cases of this and previous years. after all - also check how many slurp visits per day/months you have on your site allow Y ample time to build your indices/serps
Thanks Hans, I have submitted sitemaps to Yahoo but they never seem to crawl my site. I just checked as you suggested and found that Yahoo have about 260 pages of my site indexed. Only 1 of these is up to date. The rest are non-existent pages that I put in the bin about a year ago. I have written to them to see if it makes a difference.
did you submit your sitemap in the site explorer or in the regular submit page ? Y is slow - slower than G but eventually they get things together I guess these weeks Y is struggeling - like G as well - with the after effects of their db chrashes about 2 weeks ago I had in Y only URLs and no indexed pages - now slowly pages have titles again in the site explorer BUT I also noticed that some of the pages have TOTALLY wrong titles that never existed on those pages - hence I soon will research and submit the details via feedback form to Y. always keep on mind that Y has millions of site owners to take care of. Hence if you have any prolblem you need to submit evidence, reproduceable facts, links, details etc to ease Y's work.
Online Press releases is definitely a good way to get one way backlinks. Press releases should contain developments and news about the company, and should not simply be an advertisement. There are both paid as well as free submission services for press release submission. PRweb, PRNewsWire, USNewsWire, Yahoo News .. are some of the popular media for press releases.
Hans, I have received a reply from Yahoo already, which is great, but the answer is not. Could you have a quick look at my site (I apprecaite you are busy) and let me know what you think. My site is at www.thetartanbox.com. Their answer was (partly): Hello Stephen, Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Search. It has been determined that your site may not comply with Yahoo!'s Content Policy Guidelines located at: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/deletions/deletions-05.html. Below are some answers to common questions regarding this issue: Q: What are some of the common reasons that a site may violate Yahoo!'s Content Policy Guidelines? A: Yahoo!'s Content Policy Guidelines (link above) 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: - 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 Thanks
That's a pretty helpful letter from Yahoo. My guess is that you've fallen foul of the affiliate content one, but let's see what other forum members say. Cheers, Paz.
yes that migh tbe the reason too much other stuff like affil too many pages with lots of links and no unique content or the bottom section kind of RSS SSI (News From Scotland) also is NOT from you but machine created ( another point in their policy excludes machine created content ). you could have take a few hundred hours time to publish some real content about the products, materials and manufacturers - unique self created content is the key to success. work is the way to get it.
So the RSS feeds might be a problem as well. I am in the middle of a redesign so they will not be part of it then. Thanks for the advice. After the redesign of the site and my shopping cart (which will take a few months) I had a full intention of satrting an article writing stint. I can now see the massive value of articles rather than the quick fix rubbish like RSS feeds and Traffic Equalizer. I am intending to start publishing some of my articles even if I only write three or four a week, publish good snipetts and have the full articles on my site. Thanks again for all your time and effort. I will wait until I have done everything before I approach Yahoo again. No point doinf it now.
Thanks Paz. I take it that you are refering to the RSS feeds as well. Here was me thinking that I was doing good. Shows how much I know . But as long as I can learn that's the main thing.
If I were the owner of that site I would 1. remove all the credit card stuff from the HOME page 2. remove all content from OTHER sites such as the RSS SSI ( but i would add RSS SSI from my OWN RSS feeds to keep visitors informed of anything new from my OWN stuff such as I do on my site 3. have more content on the next level of links currently when you click any of the main links you end up on a page mostly consisting of links - there must be smarter ways to have links AND content on a page have strictly all affil stuff removed from any important page about YOUR products and have them added on 3rd level pages IF you want to get into Yahoo .. remember that Yahoo still has a paid inclusion option for most $ oriented business sites in directory - your site looks like pure $ business without any general public content / interest if you want to assure free indexing for Y search make sure the site looks also as value for general surfers 5. write content and add pictures about the subject topic to your entire site and link from front page topics like history of kilt origin of kilt material used for kilt colors and design used for kilts - traditional and modern care and maintenance of kilt - washing temperature, ironing or ? photos of various persons wearing kilt something around the country of origin of kilts - photos of the home of kilt ... all together you can easily have a few dozen entertaining and educating pages around your products in addition to the online store ONLY content as is now 6. have RSS feed with new fashion announcement - use mRSS specs with thumbnails 7. RSS feeds SSI from OTHER feed-resources is fine - but on OTHER than domain index pages AND if possible directly relevant to your own site-topic - hence kilt, kilt fashion, kilt manufacturers. kilt accessories, etc