Since the day Yahoo updated and lowered my serps I'm seeing that Yahoo does not like sub-domains. I searched for several keywords and no subdomain appear in the first 10 like it use to. I find this very unfair because there are lot's of quality websites that have sub-domains.
Hmm... if true this will hurt me alot, Ive developed a site on a subdomain of my old site, though i havent started seo yet... the other site ranks decently on yahoo though
That's an interesting observation that got by me. All of my pages that vanished after the update were also in subdomains. And these were ranked in top 10-15 in Yahoo before the update. Now they're gone.
Possible. Ex: http://directories.mywebsite.com could be the same as http://mywebsite.com/directories. These two URLs will take you to the same page.
Domain: http://www.domain.com Subdomain: http://subdomain.domain.com Folder: http://www.domain.com/folder
new info for me., Keep your observationgs coming guyz as i haven't seen anything of this sort lately in my sites.
Due to the subdomain spam I would expect most search engines would classify all the subdomains as one domain now instead of a seperate domain. Google will also have changed how it handles them and as such we may not see true results for upto 6weeks ... could be one thing behind the june/july 27th issue that seen many sites affected.
Hmmm Interesting...This could hurt alot of sites that are using subdomains legitly. For example. People that have free hosting accounts...There are very good pages that people have on free hosts. Also what about blog sites? Like blogger. They use subdomains and there are alot of good blogs out there that are ranking well right now in search engines that are something.blogspot.com I would hate to see these good ones replaced by bad blogs just because they are using something.blogspot.com instead of www.something.com...
only where you have both these present http://xxxxxx.domain.com and http://www.domain.com/xxxxxx . I have 28 of these lost to new algo. In such situations Yahoo is not displaying both pages. But where you have only http://xxxxx.domain.com , there should be no problem. I still have 6 of these showing highly in Yahoo.
BTW, i forgot to mention that this would never be the case in Google, bacause Google itself is using http://xxxxx.google.com and http://www.google.com/xxxxx on numerous subdomains. Its only a Yahoo fuck up.
Very good observation. I guess now it would better to use the http://www.domain.com/xxxx instead of http://xxxx.domain.com if search engines like yahoo do not favorably upon subdomains.
I hope Yahoo realizes that they made a mistake treating subdomains like this. They should fix this in the next Yahoo update.