A few months back Yahoo dropped all but my index page on one of my sites. Previously all pages were indexed in Y and ranked well. Wondering if anyone has experienced the same and what, if anything, you were able to do about it?
You're not alone in this exact problem. I know many, many people this has happened to within the past few months. No rhyme or reason to it. All pages are dropped but the index page. The pages are then re-spidered by Slurp and then are dropped again. Rinse and repeat. The best and only thing you can do is ignore it and keep building solid content. In my opinion, Yahoo is becoming the new DMOZ: run by retards.
So you blame a possible lack of Yahoo SEO on Yahoo and group all in DMOZ as retards in the one post. Well rather than red rep you (I use Yahoo and am involved with DMOZ), here's some advice. I SEO my sites for Yahoo and not for Google like most. I do well in both in the end. Those having issues, stop whinging and see if there is something you can do to bring your site back into Yahoo SERPs. I lost 2000 indexed pages from Yahoo in one of their algorithm updates for a particular website. Rather than whinge, I read up all I could on Yahoo SEO (btw http://www.ysearchblog.com/ sometimes gives some excellent insights into how Yahoo does their algorithm in deciding SERPs - read through as much as you can). Right now that site has over 100K pages indexed in Yahoo. Nothing is to be gained whinging. A lot is to be gained in understanding how to fix what lost your rankings in the first place, including monetry gain of course.
Not whining. Just my opinion and I'm welcome to it. No reason to try to appease the Yahoo gods. I get enough traffic through Google to make me very happy and the money is just fine. That's exactly why I told him not to worry about it. You can't keep up with algorithm changes, so don't even try. The SE's want content, not someone trying to create reality, like most "SEO gurus" do. Thank you, oh kind sir, for not red rep'ing me (OMG! It's the end of the world as we know it!) for stating my opinion. You've proven in that statement exactly why I hate DMOZ. Too many of them are arrogant and get off throwing around their weight. If you don't like my opinion, you're just going to have to get happy in the same little shoes you got mad in.
If you notice the difference between our posts, you made insults, I provided some insight and advice. Forgot in my original reply, http://www.ysmblog.com/ is also an excellent place to learn some good Yahoo SERP stuff. From memory, there was a post there which actually did a breakdown in percentages of what weighting Yahoo placed in deciding SERPs (eg meta, content, backlinks etc)
No insults at all. By stating you felt like red rep'ing me for my post, you conveyed to me your arrogance and that if you don't like what someone says, you'll threaten them. That's not cool. No matter. As they say, arguing on the Internet is like running in the Special Olympics; even if you win, you're still retarded. Let's say we agree to disagree and move on.
Y is sometime doing stupid thinks like that. i have experienced it nearly 1 month ago but it has started to reindex all pages again
I've also noticed this and have been looking at Y because it seems to confuse SEO. Also, another thing that I can clearly notice is Y loves old, aged sites and rank them high. It seems they're more looking at trust rank factor/s. OT - using the red rep if one doesn't like one's "pure opinion" isn't just IMHO.
If it doesn't apply to you, dismiss it. I don't recall mentioning any names. Only if you're one of the arrogant, obnoxious ones, should you take it personally. Your call. Even red repping someone for a general statement is an abuse of power granted you. It just makes a person look like a schoolyard bully. BTW, obviously the Yahoo snafu wasn't my problem, since it's rectifying itself. Maybe I should take offense at you assuming I was causing my own issues? Naaaaaaaaa.
Yahoo just dropped all of my pages besides 4 last Sunday. I have no idea why unless changing servers had something to do with it. It did keep 4 pages though. This is a new site so most of my traffic was from yahoo....i hope it comes back here soon. I am going to re-submit on the new server.
I have been having problems with Yahoo and my sites for the past months. Its crazy I top G and MSN but are low in Yahoo. My competitors that are high in G also have sucky rankings in Yahoo. I did notice one problem that I through may have been affecting it. I do a 301 redirect in my .htaccess file from non www to www. Strangely Y is somehow indexed the non www. and started not indexing the rest of the site. Now after a few months I have noticed that it is indexing all the www. pages now and rankings are coming back up a bit. When i check in yahoo site explorer it only slows that the www. files are indexed. But when i search for my main keyword which is exactly the domain name, which i was number 1 for a year +. The result is still at position 3 and displaying the homepage URL without the www. I definitely think there is some problem going on with yahoo. Can any one comment on this or had a similar problem? Posted about this a few months ago and no one responded... Adding to the yahoo comment, some new sites or mine rank high now in yahoo and nowhere else. Really weird.....