whats up with yahoo - is it me or them..?

[jmdb71]

Hi,
my site's home page has disapeared from yahoo, im not sure how recent this is. Some of my other pages are still on it, but none rank well at, not even when searching for specifics that should bring it up #1. My title, a week ago, was "Tools 4 Flooring - Quality Flooring Tools and Supplies"
The name of the site is tools 4 flooring, and the summary is accurate, not spam. Ive since changed it to "Tools4Flooring.com - Quality Flooring Tools and Supplies". But i really dont think this could have anything to do with at, as other sites rank highly that have titles filled with spam. Ive resubmitted my home page to yahoo
Suggestions? Whats going on? why cant yahoo update their index every now and then like google?
Thanks!

[bhartzer]

Yahoo! is just slow compared to Google. I hate to say this, but if you were in the Yahoo! Directory you might actually get your pages updated quicker. Or pay for inclusion.

[jmdb71]

thanks,
how much does it cost to be included in the yahoo dir?
Also, is there no chance this is just a fluke. Ive heard yahoo is undergoing some major changes recently - is it possible my site will be correctly indexed in a day or so? Also, if not, can i contact yahoo about this? thanks

[scallihan]

Originally Posted by jmdb71

Hi,
my site's home page has disapeared from yahoo, im not sure how recent this is...

After Yahoo dropped Google, my hits from Yahoo almost disappeared -- from over 18,000 page views in January to just over 600 page views in April. For June, however, I'm projecting over 9,000 page views from Yahoo, which is about half-way back to where I was before Yahoo dropped Google.

I've also seen a major improvement in my MSN page views: from 146 page views in April to over 3600 page views projected for June.

I haven't done anything to improve my rankings at Yahoo or MSN -- just sat back and waited.

Make sure you're not doing anything (spamming the search engines) that might get you filtered out. The text at the bottom of your home page might be a problem, in that it is clearly there simply to amass a lot of keyphrases (and might be watering down your targeted keyphrases).

I also like to think of every page as a front page -- your other pages are short on text with keyphrases (while your frontpage is overloaded with them). Identify several preferred keyphrases for each of your subpages and include them in your Title, H1 element, and an introductory paragraph. For your Adhesives page, for instance: carpet adhesives, tile adhesives, ceramic tile adhesives, adhesive removers, carpet adhesive removers, etc. In other words, instead of trying to attract adhesives customers directly to your front page, attract them to your Flooring Adhesives page (right now, you have just Adhesives as the page's Title and H1 element, which is not specific enough).