Use to rank high in Yahoo but for the past two years not at all. Only the index page shows up when you enter site:mywebsite.com Is this a penility?
Do you have a good number of links to that site? I've noticed Yahoo will index main pages of new sites, but that it takes a couple hundred backlinks to get Yahoo to dig deeper.
maybe you can try submitting your rss feed or a sitemap on the http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com sort of like the webmaster tools that google has If you give us your URL maybe we can make a more educated guess
I would have to say without seeing the url that it either has to be a lack of linking or some sort of banning. My new blog www.InfoProductPodcast.com has 15 pages indexed in Yahoo and over 200 results in Google and is under 30 days old. Gregg
had that problem with a few of my sites.. a $50 url submission to search submit basic fixed it within a month and now traffic is steady to all my sub pages
We use to rank in the top five for our top search terms. Also most of our sites interior pages were in Yahoo search resutls before. The site has 2658 inlinks. I have also submitted the rss sitemap a few time over the past year. Is there a fix?
finally, all this talk for nothing ... yahoo knows about 500 of your pages (indexed) http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=www.americanhomeinspectordirectory.com and google knows about 1200 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...mericanhomeinspectordirectory.com&btnG=Search so give yahoo some more time and impove your internal link structure by including a humam sitemap but also create a sitemap for yahoo ...
Chios, Thanks for yyour help. How did you come to the conclusion that Yahoo has 500 of my pages indexed?
really sorry lostdog I actually looked at the wrong statistic on yahoo scratch the first link on previous post you are right http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.co...omeinspectordirectory.com&bwm=p&bwmf=s&bwmo=d google only knows about one of you pages let me look again EDIT: when was the last time that someone changed the html code on the site ? How is the HTML outputed ? is there a CMS behind this site that spits HTML ? My guess is that your code structure is very bad to the point that yahoo crawlers don't know what to make of it. Lots of carriage returns and line feeds for no reason. And most importantly your left side menu (where the internal links reside) only comes up almost at the end of the html code. So like I already said, improve first page's (and internal pages) linking structure and and bring your internal links closer to the <body> tag and it might also help to get some external links to point to some important internal pages to your site (deep links) ...
Thank you all your ideas. I dont think we have found the reason though. The code is 4.01 strict and validates. The site is clean. The menu at the end of the code is not the problem. We have redesigned the site after the drop to only the index page being listed in hope to get back in. Gregg, You have chance to look at this?
Well just because the code is strict and it validates it does not mean that it is favorable by the search engines !!! Try my suggestion, the code looks pretty ugly if you take a close look, and not very crawl friendly ... in my opinion ... What are the changes you have done on the domain right before the pages in the yahoo index started dropping ?
I did not make any changes befor the drop. I made them a year later. What problems do you see with the code? I really think we have a penalty. Have no idea why.
I already told you ... l ots of carriage returns in places that they have no reason to be ... could be actually giving the crawlers a hard time Bring the left navigation closer to the <body> tag if you can
Chios, I edited out the returns. Im not willing to move the menu at this time. Reason being that the menu was up top by the body tag for the past three years and was only moved in the past thirty days. The site has been dropped from Yahoo search for almost two years now. We use to rock in Yahoo. #1
im having the same problem with my sites. oh and i have to disagree, google does not take that much longer and overall its easier to get on.