Keeping old pages, not visiting new pages

[climaxphoto]

I have got a huge problem! I was hired by a photo company to redesign their website. Done! And it's much better, designed with SEO in mind with much better, easier to find content.

Great! I thought :o(

Yahoo remembers EACH and EVERY page on their old site, but hasn't touched my new site (live since 8/02). I managed to do a sneaky 404 redirect to our
front page if someone clicks on one of those old, obsolete links -- but if someone is looking for a specific product and get the flashy homepage, they
leave.

I know they never paid for a placement, and we are
not listed in the directory either.

My question is:

1) how are we showing up on the Yahoo! searches at
all?

and

2) how do I get them to re-index our site????????

DESPERATE IN TENNESSEE!!!!

[pne]

My total sympathy!

There've been a couple of threads on associated topics recently. My feeling was that Yahoo SERPs would update this month and earlier on this week there was significant activity. Unfortunately they now seem to have reverted to old cache/old SERPs.

Having said this Slurp has been on my site regularly over the last few weeks. Seems you're saying that it isn't visiting at all? Don't really know what you can do. I used to do a site:www.mysite.com search twice a day as I'd read somewhere that this helped. I suppose it would have been just as helpful if I'd stood outside in the rain with one foot off the ground shouting for other-worldly intervention.

This problem isn't going away anytime soon.

pne

[schmeetz]

I placed my company’s new site up 2 months ago and still have old stuff lying around on the www. It takes a while for the SE’s to update there SERP’s . Just make sure that the old pages re-direct the traffic to the equiv new ones.

Yahoo still uses some of Googles data in there SERP’s but will be transitioning to all paid before you can say "I'm in the Yahoo SERP's and didn't pay a thing!!!".

Wait and make sure the crawlers can get around easily.

I’m desperate in Montreal but for a completely different reason ;-)

[ronniethedodger]

Originally Posted by schmeetz

I placed my company’s new site up 2 months ago and still have old stuff lying around on the www. It takes a while for the SE’s to update there SERP’s . Just make sure that the old pages re-direct the traffic to the equiv new ones.

It takes a while for Yahoo Slurped pages to make it into it's index ... which ultimately affects all downline users of that index of which MSN is. It does not take "all SE's" a while to update their SERPs ... they are continually updating everyday.

As far as I know, Yahoo still does not like redirect pages. If you use it to move traffic from one site to the other, then at Google you will be transferring your results to the other site as well. They behave just like a browser and will do what you tell it to do ... thus you lose the results from the old site.

Originally Posted by schmeetz

Yahoo still uses some of Googles data in there SERP’s but will be transitioning to all paid before you can say "I'm in the Yahoo SERP's and didn't pay a thing!!!".

Last I heard, that expired last month and Yahoo cannot rely on any Google data now. I may be mistaken about that, but Google S-1 Filing is where that little bit of information came from.

And how you came up with Yahoo transitioning to "all paid" is beyond me. That sounds more like idle gossip and rumor-mongering.