Does yahoo index asp pages?

smakyyy · #1 (**permalink**) 10-05-2004, 01:28 AM

Does Yahoo index asp pages? i have a website that is totally asp based with a database-- google has already picked up but trace in yahoo.

so the question is - does yahoo index asp pages.
thanks in advance.

buddhu · #2 (**permalink**) 10-05-2004, 05:25 AM

Hiya.

Yes, Yahoo! does index and rank .asp pages (and .php pages). We rank #1 or #2 for many of our main terms on both Y! and Google with .asp pages.

Edited to add:
Having said that, most of our pages, although .asp are not database generated. They are built from includes, but we don't serve them on-the-fly from content in a DB like a CMS would. That means we don't have long URLs with extra parameters after the .asp extension. Some engines don't really like those long dynamic URLs. Could that be affecting your site?

Chatmaster · #3 (**permalink**) 10-05-2004, 05:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buddhu

Having said that, most of our pages, although .asp are not database generated. They are built from includes, but we don't serve them on-the-fly from content in a DB like a CMS would. That means we don't have long URLs with extra parameters after the .asp extension. Some engines don't really like those long dynamic URLs. Could that be affecting your site?

This doesn't matter to Yahoo at all! Perhaps you are using javascript for navigation? Do you have a sitemap? Do you use modrewrite?

smakyyy · #4 (**permalink**) 10-05-2004, 11:31 PM

i do have a site - www.cheapskatesrus.com which is indexed by yahoo - but it is not pulling any products from teh database- while google is doing that - example - in google search for - boss bck400 - this site is #15 similarly for other products - but i did a link search in yahoo and i did not find any of the products in yahoo even though the site went live with all the current products.

alienzhavelanded · #5 (**permalink**) 10-06-2004, 02:48 AM

Yahoo shouldn't have a problem with those kinds of pages. I use .asp with database info which is indexed fine. If the site is farily new or you've done alot of restructuring of the content, perhaps Yahoo is slow in picking that up. A key element in search engine listings: time ! LOL

smakyyy · #6 (**permalink**) 10-06-2004, 06:01 AM

no - what i mean is the stock pages are indexed but not the ones with the products.
the products are pulled from a database dynamically.
google doesnt seem ot have a problem with this - but what about yahoo?

alienzhavelanded · #7 (**permalink**) 10-07-2004, 01:55 AM

Are those dynamic product pages producing urls with characters like www.shop.com/store.asp?56=blahblah?

Some engines don't like those, although I don't see why Yahoo would have a problem.