Currently yahoo has indexed only 2 pages of my site. Is is not indexing other pages. No problem with Google and msn.
I have the same problem as well. Google and MSN have picked up 20,000 pages, but Yahoo has only picked up my homepage even though Slurp visits 60-70 times per day. I tried submitting the url.txt file as Yahoo recommends but that did not seem to make any difference. I'll give it another month and worry about it more then if there is still no activity.
as about to post this same issue. I have tons of pages indexed in google and msn, but just my homepage in yahoo. What gives? Maybe that's why no one uses yahoo anymore.
i've experienced exactly the same thing lithman. Unfortunately, Yahoo! is a lot slower in indexing new sites. I have one site that was getting pages indexed by MSN and Google almost 2 months ago but Yahoo has only recently indexed the homepage. Just have to wait.
My site has been basically a one page site for over a year. It has only been about 4 weeks since I have added the rest of the pages. I would understand if Yahoo was only coming by once in a while, but it visits at least a minimum of 50 times a day. Oh well, I'll just keep waiting (semi-)patiently.
I thought it only happens to my new site. It's already 4 months and it only index aroudn 10 from nearly 90 pages. The only reasoning why this happens is the fact that most of my content is public domain stuff. Is it the same with you guys?
Is there a lot of similar content? If you are using public domain material that is used on other sites then I guess it is possible it is considered too similar. This is something I am looking into on one of my sites that is not doing so well in Yahoo. I still suspect that it is early days for you thought - 4 months old is pretty new!
I had sites getting on Yahoo SERP & rank well only 2 weeks after it went live. None used public domain stuff. This latest site has lots of public domain content and is not indexed nicely.I am not fretting because if I were runnning Yahoo, I wouldn't want tons of non-unique stuff on the index. Furthermore, in Yahoo's guidelines it said it doesn't want "Pages that have substantially the same content as other pages". So what I believe is this. I need to make those public domain materials unique. I got some idea in my mind and is implementing it right now. Let's see if that improves indexing by Slurp.
UPDATE: By merely writing a 200 words article accompanying the public domain work, slurp has index those pages I had altered. This hapens in less than 24 hours. Other pages with strictly public domain stuff remains unindexed. So for those of you who have lots of public domain stuff & complain that wouldn't index your pages, just make them unique. Add an article to the stuff. It's that simple.
public domain stuff or duplicate content does result in slower indexing. I've never really understood the rationale of the SE, yahoo eats up some of my sites really well, while other sites are preferred by google. I don't really go out of my way to optimize for one SE or the other.