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Now a day I find it is very hard to index new pages in yahoo and yahoo show only 3 or 4 pages of a website at a time and it keep changing them.
now what is the stategy of yahoo,please help
BungleBob
07-28-2004, 05:53 PM
Yahoo isn't known for fast indexing - in fact their reputation for a fresh index is fairly poor. You just have to be patient!
Alternatively sign up to their SiteMatch programme and pay to get specific URL's spidered regularly.
mizambar
07-28-2004, 06:41 PM
I also have problems with Yahoo and my website...I honestly believe that their search engine is light-years behind the quality of Google.
tempotantrum
08-04-2004, 05:48 PM
Maybe its just luck on my part (if such a thing exists in this field, I'm convinced it does!)but of late I'm finding Yahoo much quicker at indexing.I've been experimenting with a music news blog and found Yahoo were a crawling within 48 hours or so. After 6 weeks I was in the top 20 serps from one of my key phrases (out of over 4 million results). Not one single link exchange was done, no PR (as in public relations blurb, not Page Rank by the way), nothing. I put it down to the RSS feeds as I literally just put the site up, posted daily and waited. Of course with it not being a commercial venture I can afford to do that.
On another note though Google sends way more referals than Yahoo, at least for me and it always has (and though Google quickly indexed the same site it wasn't even in the top 1000 for the same phrase).
Convenient way of keeping your eye on your own results is http://www.yahoosearchrankings.com/index.php, from the same people that bought us Googlerankings.com, though I guess 99% of people here know this already !
incrediblehelp
08-05-2004, 01:41 PM
Actually I have seen Yahoo make some strides in indexing more quickly. It used to take my sites months for changes to appear, now I am seeing it happen in 2 weeks or less.
wavedancing
08-05-2004, 02:45 PM
Actually I have seen Yahoo make some strides in indexing more quickly. It used to take my sites months for changes to appear, now I am seeing it happen in 2 weeks or less.
Google recrawl my site everyday. But yahoo seems haven't crawl my site for more than a month. My site is listed in the Yahoo directory as one of the most popular.
What factor is important when yahoo decide to recrawl a site?
Any clue?
jbgilbert
08-05-2004, 03:56 PM
The facts jack....
When Yahoo left Google, their new crawler went into overdrive and their crawling remains an improvement over the old Inktomi.
However, Indexing the pages they crawl remains a problem -- well maybe not a problem, just slow (no comparison to Google's speed in indexing).
I can't say Yahoo's indexing is a "problem" because Yahoo may intentionally index slowly. I'm stating only my opinion here, but if I were wanting a pay product like Site Match to succeed and still wanted to offer free submission, the only benefit left for Site Match is speedier indexing...
Bluesuit
08-06-2004, 12:59 PM
Haven't had a Yahoo crawl for over a month. Google spiders my site daily.
Bluesuit,
I think Yahoo is about to make a major SERPS update. Cache for many sites (mine included) is very old (+3 months). Yahoo is currently making certain cache versions unavailable. IMHO this points to a major update soon.
pne
Bluesuit
08-07-2004, 03:49 PM
As if by magic, Yahoo actually visited my site today and updated it's cached pages. They must have read my message above ;)
Anybody else get a long awaited Yahoo visit today?
Bluesuit
08-07-2004, 03:53 PM
As if by magic, Yahoo actually visited my site today and updated it's cached pages. They must have read my message above ;)
Anybody else get a long awaited Yahoo visit today?
ronniethedodger
08-10-2004, 05:43 AM
The facts jack....
When Yahoo left Google, their new crawler went into overdrive and their crawling remains an improvement over the old Inktomi.
However, Indexing the pages they crawl remains a problem -- well maybe not a problem, just slow (no comparison to Google's speed in indexing).
I can't say Yahoo's indexing is a "problem" because Yahoo may intentionally index slowly. I'm stating only my opinion here, but if I were wanting a pay product like Site Match to succeed and still wanted to offer free submission, the only benefit left for Site Match is speedier indexing...
Bingo!!! We have been talking (some of us anyway) about what was going to transpire in August with Yahoo after they no longer have the google-crutch.
I too noticed the rise in Slurp activity, but non-existant indexing. It does appear that those pages are being held in some dark corner somewhere. For what purpose ... cannot say.
The SiteMatch thing though, I dunno if that is their intent to drum up registrations because of this. I cannot see Yahoo purposely holding back the indexing, not intentionally anyway.
Across a handful of sites that I pay close attention to, Slurp gobbled up several hundred pages a couple of weeks ago. Not one page has made it into the index. It is like Yahoo is frozen right now -- maybe PNE is right that Yahoo will be coming thru with a major update of that Index shortly. Hope so ... then we will see what Yahoo is really made of.
AITechnology
08-10-2004, 06:57 PM
Yahoo Cache of my site has a date of 4/23
Slow is an understatement.
gemsandcrafts
08-12-2004, 12:07 PM
Well trying my luck!! Mr. Inktomi have not visited my site for weeks. Maybe this post on this forum does the trick for my site too. I have added a lot of new content and pages on my site. I was keen to see if my changes helped my rankings or not.
gemsandcrafts
08-17-2004, 01:36 AM
yes it works...amazing!!!