My new sites are fully indexed but none of them are raking in the serps. I heard rumors that yahoo installed a "sandbox". Is that true?
I've never heard of yahoo's sandbox... My new sites are doing great on yahoo while I'm having hardtime with google... I guess it's just the matter of keywords....
im doing good in G! and MSN... but Yahoo,I dont get good results with them. I think yahoo doesnt like me... huhuhu
Absolutely, less competitive keywords on new sites will do well in Y and MSN where as competitive keywords on new sites don't tend to do well on anything at first. All about hard work and patience
too competetive kws cant be the reason, cuz I dont even rank by searching full title of the site which competition is like 50,000
There is no yahoo sandbox that I have seen. You just need to keep getting links and don't go overboard on KW density.
well... it only took me 2 days for my site to be listing in yahoo after i submit my url.. well for google, i had submit a site early october and until now it still never show on google search :=(
yahoo is slow several times now I have actually thought I forgot how to optimize, because it took so long for yahoo to rank
now my site is showing up by searching full title so there is not sandbox but the update they announced on nov.1 failed, yahoo still shows my two weeks old cached version of my site... something went wrong
Im pretty sure theirs some sort of new site penalty. I can't rank on Yahoo for squat on any of my new sites, same for G. But MSN rapes.
For me, Yahoo installed a quick sand box. Any site associated with certain parameters (will not say what) seems to have disappeared and stayed out of their index. I've completely given up on them entirely. Never really say any traffic/revenue that was worth anything anyway.
I find Yahoo is a strange SE that rarely makes any sense. I've got 2 sites that were started at the same time, similar (ish) keywords in terms of competitiveness, same sort of SEO done. One site started ranking in Yahoo about 14 days after going live, the other site took nearly 3 months before I could find it anywhere in Yahoo. Once you get a site into Y then it doesn't seem too difficult to get decent rankings.
Yahoo deranked my sites, then calls me up daily trying to pimp their advertising network. They tell me for as little as 10 cents a click I can get my sites back in their index. Bunk... Nothing like letting a telco run a business. Yahoo, SBC, then SBC Yahoo, now SBC/ATT so what's next? ATT Yahoo. Screw it. I'm taking my search needs elsewhere.
Yahoo is slow but well worth the wait. I think their quality of customer is better than Google, but I'm sure others will disagree.
a web site launched in early October is doing very well in MSN, got PR 4 in Google (with only up to 5 backlinks) and still can't be found in Yahoo even being indexed.