Indexed Pages

[C French]

My wife's site shows around 130 indexed pages in Google & Msn and only 3 indexed pages for Yahoo. This has been this way for quite awhile. Yahoo comes only slightly below MSN for traffic. Why wouldn't she have more indexed pages?

[brian.mark]

A better question is why is MSN only giving you slightly more traffic with 130 pages indexed than Yahoo does with 3 pages?

Yahoo's crawler has been slow, but it is slowly picking up speed. Eventually, it should get to all your content as long as you're not prohibiting it with a robots.txt file.

Brian.

[DMC_34]

I had about 90 pages in Y! index before the last SERP update. Now I have one. Slurp indexes slowly but still manages to come. How ever none of the new pages are showing up in their index. IMO Yahoo is horrible. Their indexing problems will probably open the door for MSN to pass them. But first MSN must clean the SPAM out of their results.

Future to be

Google
MSN
Yahoo - Distant 3rd

[wrmineo]

I think it's futile to try and backwards engineer and deduct what individual engine/robot does what. Having said that, I do believe that MSN and Yahoo both have a lot of work to do to add a bit of chlorine to their pool. However, I think trying to focus on one particular search engine too can be futile. Your spinning wheels will lose traction and before you know it you're sunk.

My Search Engine Inclusion looks something like this:

Google: 214
HotBot: 0
AllTheWeb: 1,960
AltaVista: 16,600 (Same for Y!)
Lycos: 171
MSN: 11,049
AOL: 214

Once I stopped worrying about Google, or whomever, and simply began building pages to the best of my ability and to W3C standards where possible, I noticed I was getting more done (less fretting) and slowly drwaing more visitors; going from about 50 visitors per day to about 4100 per day in April.

Why the disparity? I don't know. Frankly, I don't give a damn. I build my pages hoping that their quality will prevail in the long run.

Just a hopeful optimist and romantic, I guess ....

Good Luck!

FYI - double check your robots.txt file to be safe, make sure that 1) it is present and 2) that it's not excluding anyone you want indexing ... happy ranking!