Does Yahoo use some type of grading of sites, or does it demote sites at will?
It has been a up and down year with them first with excellent traffic to a decline over the past few months. Our site is index and as we use site explorer so we see that cache of pages being updated constanting. Yet if you type a title of one our pages you can not find it or it may be hundreds of pages down the search index. If you type our domain name it shows 33,700 pages indexed.
We did find one problem that they had index our site under
https://, where as we only utilize one directory on a window server with
https://, we never promoted the secured directory and had the pages as no index, no follow, but for some reason they found it and added it to the index and then added other pages in the site. We are currently trying to resolve this with adding that Slurp should not visit the directory in the robot.txt. Hopefully they will not scan the secured directory again. They could be penalizing us with this, but not sure. They also cached some pages as
http://https://puppydogweb.com/canin.../rhodesian.htm. We sent a message to Site Explorer's forum and one of their employees suggested we place the secure site on another domain. It may be a last resort we do if we can not get them to stop scanning the site under https.
With us being in the index, yet not in search results we do not know who to ask what the problem is. Any thoughts or suggestions on where to go would be appreciated?