Why Is Yahoo Not Listing Me?

[lightning]

I'm stumped. Really stumped. My site used to have great ranking with Yahoo. And I have wondered what's been going on for months, trying different things.

I just looked to see how I was doing, using the command
'site:lightning-mortgage.com' in Yahoo's search box.

Only 2 pages came up. My home page and an eBook page. I have over 150 pages on my site. msn.com shows 156 pages. Google also shows all my pages.

What did I do to cause Yahoo to not like my pages?

Their Slurp spider visits my site multiple times each day. Why aren't my pages being listed any more?

[fdja]

I just wrote a factual reply to lightning's post, based on my own account and it disappeared! What's up with the Censorship on this Forum?

[tvcrazyman]

I've got about 30 sites or so and one of my old sites that I rarely update dropped from yahoo almost completely accept for a few image searches and the front page. It's always done very well even though it's not updated very often.

Do you update your site very often?

I've also read before that someone can report your site to Yahoo for content theft and get you kicked off. This could happen if the person complaining was the one who originally stole your content. I haven't heard if this is still a problem lately.

Sometimes I wonder if search engines may sometimes just have a hiccup which might knock you out of their index.

Also algorythms are bound to be getting so complex to fight off spam that good sites are probably knocked out on a regular basis as well.

[junn]

My site http://www.referatde.com exist from 2 weeks ago and it have 83 pages display in yahoo search and in google search only 5 pages.

[brian.mark]

Have you taken a look to see if any of your unique sentences show results in Yahoo? It is possible that someone else is now using your content and you got dumped as duplicate. That's been discussed on this forum quite a bit under the name "scraper sites", although it gets misspelled with a second p many times. Some searches should get you a few threads on this topic.

The other thing to do is look for is this: Yahoo searches for your specific pages that show someone else's. Oops... looks like ours got fixed. Anyway, it was showing someone else's domain because they had linked with a 302 redirect to our site. Business.com did this a while back and got our top rankings as organic listings of their redirect. Someone else did it just to that page and our page dropped out. 302 redirects are really bad for your site if someone else is using them.

If slurp is still slurping, then it shouldn't be a problem with the site. I'd try searching for some full URL's and sentences within Yahoo and see what that returns.

Brian.

[wednesday]

I thought Yahoo fixrd the 302 hijack long before google. The 302's are appearing as links to my sites in Y. Even are counted as links from virtual pages in MSN.

[brian.mark]

Sometimes they're fixed. They claim it's 100%. However, numerous examples came up at SES where it wasn't fixed yet, much to Yahoo's dismay.

What they say happens is that a 302 from an external site acts like a 301. What seems to happen is about 1/2 of the times I see a 302, it acts like it should, 1/4 it lists both the linking page and the target page, and 1/4 of the times it seems to still be dropping the target and leaving the linking page. I've had no problems in Google thankfully, but Yahoo remains a problem. I'm sure I'll have an example come up again here pretty soon, so I'll let you know when I see it.

Brian.