Help! Yahoo and MSN acting strangely to my keywords!

[funkyspunkymonky]

Need help, can someone help me?

I am seeking some advice on how to solve my website optimization blues. My company has an award winning site, but was not optimized by the creators. Over the past 8 months I have been optimizing my company's website and have greatly raised the rank placement. However, both Yahoo and MSN act strangely to my keywords. If I input a keyword on Yahoo or MSN I get different results at different times. Sometimes the page I want comes up and at other times it isn't there at all. To help narrow down the search I even included our company name, yet the pages still might not show up at all. This is very disturbing because it is like a roll of the dice, and our potential customer aren't likely to keep trying the same keyword in hopes of getting different results. Why is this happening? It has been 3 months since I made any recent changes so my pages should be indexed properly. Does anybody have any answers?

Also I have another problem with our website. Our URL is www.sierradisplay.com, yet Yahoo and MSN somtimes list us as "www.sierra-display.com" The hyphenated domain name is from the company website years ago and we don't use it anymore and I can't seem to get rid of it. When I put in a keyword search I can get either the hyphen version or the normal URL. Maybe my two problems are related? I submit our website every time without the hyphen, but it still sticks and how the heck did MSN index it with the hyphen when we stop using that domain years ago? I'm losing my mind! Can anybody help me please? Thanks! :)


--funkyspunkymonky--

[iamrussell]

There was a major Inktomi update a couple days ago. Maybe that's it. Yahoo and MSN both use Inktomi to get their results.

[optimizemy.com]

As a suggestion I would just pick up the additional URL and create a redirect - also let the Search engines know via the redirect the new domain name.

Another but less attactive alternative is to buy the domain and then ...

Create a robots.txt

User-agent: googleBOT
Disallow: /
Place in your root directory
You can also place a robots exclusion tag in the head of each page:
<meta name="googleBOT" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">

You can then manually remove all urls here:
http://services.google.com:8882/urlc...&lastcmd=login

[Keimos]

Hi funkyspunkymonky!!

Firstly your link www.sierradisplay.com, is not available to me. The site http://www.sierra-display.com/ is viewable.

Check out your hosting and IP addresses.

I have firewall and antivirus which may affect what I can view but at the end of the day your old site is still live so you really need to make sure that your new address works before worrying about being found.

As above once live put in a redirect but your old address is probably better than the new one.

Just a thought, hope it helps

[Gary Golden]

http://www.sierradisplay.com

In your title: "Your source for" are really wasted words leave them out and just have "Holiday Banners, Custom Banners, Holiday Decorations, Lighting"

Important keywords need to be at the beginning of your title.

The reason the link did not work above is because of the comma at the end, this link works fine.

[skypower]

The reason it does not work is because there is a "," in the URL, take out that and it works.

[pbdink]

there are two problems i see on a quick look:

1-your site is not consistantly found when clicking on the link-you might have some server or DNS problems

2-your optimization needs radical help
a) you need copy on the page-that is how the search engines read your site and you have virtually none.
b)-your source code is all java script

move over to CSS and put all your coding for the fonts, images etc on the CSS script sheet and remove it from the page. add 350-400 wordsa of keyword rich copy and move your image files and java script to bottom of your source code. use wordtracker.com to find the appropriate keywords.

good luck
ira

[funkyspunkymonky]

Sorry everybody for the bad link. the site is: www.sierradisplay.com The link in my original post had a comma in it.

[funkyspunkymonky]

Sorry everybody for the bad link (it has a comma in it). The website is www.sierradisplay.com