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April 07, 2004
Is your Website Missing from Yahoo!?
More and more website owners are surfacing, whose sites do not appear in the new Yahoo! although they have plenty of inbound links and have been part of Google (and subsequently the older Yahoo!) for some time. At the time of the Yahoo! adoption of the Inktomi engine it became known that Yahoo! wishes to increase the number of pages that are indexed by Yahoo! at the moment . (A simple comparison can be done by searching for the word the in both engines. Google locates 5.660.000.000 documents for this search and yahoo! 1.860.000.000 which indicates that even if the numbers should not be taken for face value there is a lag in the number of pages listed by Yahoo! at the moment). This is the reason why the new Yahoo! companion will act as an assistant in getting as many pages as possible crawled by the new Yahoo! and indexed in the Search engine result pages.
In any case there are some chances that your page may be missing from yahoo! at the moment so we bring you a list of steps you may try to take for getting your site listed.
- First of all make sure that your site is indeed missing from Yahoo! The algorithm change might have pushed your pages down in the ranks of the SERPs so you may simply need to work on search engine optimizing your pages in order to raise your rankings.
- Make sure that your website is not penalized. The usual reasons for getting yourself banned apply in Yahoo! as well (cloaking, spamming, link farms, dodgy pages). Yahoo! is also hard on affiliate websites so this is also a reason for getting yourself banned.
- Clean up your website. This means that you should be cleaning up your HTML files from elements which crawlers are not very happy with. This includes javascript, applets, flash objects etc. (For example you may want to place all your javascript in external files and call those through your HTML page). It is also a good idea to have your HTML validated for the W3C guidelines.
- Submit your website to established directories (dmoz, goguides, joeant, yahoo directory etc.). This will give you a set of quality inward links which are definitely going to help with crawling and indexing.
- Depending on your urgency and budget submit to Yahoo!. You may go for the free submission (with no guaranteed approval date) or the Paid Inclusion program that will list you within 4 days (but you will have to pay both for the submission and for the clicks in the website).
- Monitor and examine your logfiles for accesses of the Yahoo! Slurp crawler. This should be done on a daily basis as it is important to understand exactly whether Yahoo! is seeing your site (and how).
If none of the options seem to work for you consult an expert but remember it needs time to get things going especially at this new stage of things. There are many small details particular to your website that may be interfering so an expert will be able to investigate and let you know what may be going wrong.
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Posted by Basileios at April 7, 2004 06:14 AM
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