Yahoo! Search Results
May 20th, 2007
I’m really curious as to how Yahoo! decides when to include a website in their search results. I have had this website up and running since early February and submitted it 3 times (about a month apart) to be included in Yahoo!’s search results, yet until this week I have been omitted from Yahoo!’s results. Granted there isn’t much content on this site and I don’t post very often, but I don’t understand why Yahoo! decided to shun my site. Google had me listed within the first week and MSN had me up within a reasonable amount of time. I can only guess the referring links from Joey and Jon (looks like Jon removed the link, but Google Analytics tells me there was one at one point) are what made Yahoo! finally deem me worthy to grace their results. Seems to me that if a site owner submits their site and there is a decent amount unique content there they shouldn’t need to have referring links to be listed. If I had any readers on this blog, this is the point where I would pose them with the question “Any ideas on why Yahoo! takes so long to include a site in it’s listings?” So let those comments roll in!
Popularity: 66% [?]
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:30 am
I’d have to say it’s all about the links. It looks like Yahoo Site Explorer says you have 5 links to adampatten.com and 1 link to www.adampatten.com (from Joey).
I posted about a few wordpress plugins that have been great for SEO since wordpress out of the box ain’t so great.
http://www.alibiproductions.com/2007/05/28/website-promotion-with-wordpress-plugins/
Let me know if you ever get a blogroll, I’ll hook you up
June 2nd, 2007 at 4:29 pm
It’s still weak that Yahoo! didn’t add me after I submitted it to them 3 different times over a good amount of time. I need to get more familiar with Yahoo! anyways, I’m pretty much a Google snob but I like a lot of the stuff Yahoo! is doing. Thanks for the link about the plugins I will definitely be using most of them especially FeedSmith to get those RSS stats.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:23 am
I don’t even bother submitting to search engines because then it goes into the supplemental index and can take months to show up. Building back links, creating a sitemap and posting more often should get you in Yahoo in no time at all.