What Happened to YAHOO?

greeneagle · #1 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 04:52 AM

I haven't really played over here in a while, nor payed much attention to their spidering for some time, but it sure seems like it is more difficult to get the spider to fly over.

It used to run you over as soon as you posted somethin new up.

I just don't see near the activity I used to see on several sites, and haven't for a long time now.

What's going on over there?

I have probably missed something here, but can't afford the time to drudge back through all the threads.

Anyone want to fill me in?

Ken

dburdon · #2 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 05:50 AM

Ken,

I guess the lack of activity is related to the loss of market share. Google, Google, Google.

I know from experience that people often claim they're using Google when in fact they're using Yahoo.

I like Yahoo for B2B search. And search would be much better with three strong players. But in saliency terms, Google increasingly rules the roost.

Irishjim · #3 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 01:25 PM

They hit us six minutes ago, Greeneagle, and do on a regular basis. Doesn't seem to help much, though. I find them slow in picking up new pages.

**incrediblehelp** · #4 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 01:52 PM

Yahoo is always one of my top referring bots, especially the ones that I have Yahoo Explorer maps built for.

Pascal77 · #5 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by greeneagle

I haven't really played over here in a while, nor payed much attention to their spidering for some time, but it sure seems like it is more difficult to get the spider to fly over.

It used to run you over as soon as you posted somethin new up.

I just don't see near the activity I used to see on several sites, and haven't for a long time now.

What's going on over there?

I have probably missed something here, but can't afford the time to drudge back through all the threads.

Anyone want to fill me in?

Ken

Did you check your logs or your stats?

Pascal77 · #6 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by incrediblehelp

Yahoo is always one of my top referring bots, especially the ones that I have Yahoo Explorer maps built for.

Do you have a link to a post or article that dexscribes this Yahoo Explorer Maps?(Yahoo is totally not important overhere but i'm intrested to know what it is exactly)

**incrediblehelp** · #7 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 02:31 PM

Pascal just sign up your website to:

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

and then you should be able to submit a simple text file with all your URLs or a standard XML feed.

More from SEW:

New Yahoo Site Explorer To Provide Linkage Data, Bulk Submit

Pascal77 · #8 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by incrediblehelp

Pascal just sign up your website to:

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

and then you should be able to submit a simple text file with all your URLs or a standard XML feed.

More from SEW:

New Yahoo Site Explorer To Provide Linkage Data, Bulk Submit

ok thx
(i'm going to do international sites for a client in 2007 so this could be handy)

CreditFN · #9 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 03:26 PM

Check for Inktomi search engine, they were bought by Yahoo and handle slurps for their engine.

Pascal77 · #10 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CreditFN

Check for Inktomi search engine, they were bought by Yahoo and handle slurps for their engine.

yup and in awstats yahoo slurp isn't recognized as a yahoo bot.

pittbug · #11 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 06:16 PM

Yahoo announced a new spider end of July with new crawl schedules:

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/2006_07.html

Mads Dam · #12 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 10:02 PM

Google, yahoo and MSN have all been visiting my site a few hours ago...

Christiaan · #13 (**permalink**) 09-27-2006, 01:11 AM

Not noticed aby problem with Yahoo.
Neither Google and MSN.

Coqui Colunge · #14 (**permalink**) 09-27-2006, 09:57 AM

I haven't noticed any problems either, but if yahoo's bots are not visiting your sites, and it seems most people are not having this problem either, then there must be a good reason for this to happen only to your sites, right? Anyone have any ideas?

I would be interesting to try to find out why.

Coqui

Pascal77 · #15 (**permalink**) 09-27-2006, 10:04 AM

I think the bots are visiting his sites.
He probably uses awstats or something like that to see if they visit.
In my AWstats there isn't a yahoo bot known but there are visits off yahoo.
Perhaps Ken can check his logs and clear this out.
(and also the inktomi bot visits probably for yahoo, like said earlier)

greeneagle · #16 (**permalink**) 09-28-2006, 02:24 PM

They are visiting the other sites, just not the new one yet. They don't seem to come around as much any more, even in case of frequent updates including those that are dynamic.

I took Incredible's advice though and submitted the Yahoo keys for all.

They should all be validated there within 24hrs.

Thanks for the info Incredible, I missed that Beta game.

Ken

itsdonny · #17 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 09:10 PM

Wondering if this is a way for Yahoo to get you to pay $299. Yahoo hasn't come to one of my new sites either, yet there are links out there. Google and msn have though. It's been 2 months.

dburdon · #18 (**permalink**) 10-07-2006, 10:08 AM

Donny,

the Yahoo directory does seem to work. But I'm not sure you can justify the $299.