Strange Yahoo behavior - help please

[jay88]

I have a site that I have been creating new search engine optimized pages for regularly. I've added about 5 new SEO'd pages per week and have been doing it for a month. So I have 20 brand new SEO'd pages in total. The site had already been indexed by Google, but I have not been able to get these new pages indexed.

Here's the strange thing that I would love to hear some expert opinions on: The very last page I created last week IS THE ONLY ONE now indexed by Yahoo, which seemed to have happened yesterday. None of the other 19 pages that I created and posted before the 20th page are showing up in Yahoo. How can this be? I've never heard of Yahoo or any other search engine for that matter only indexing some pages but not others (assuming all pages are linked up properly, which mine are).

Any thoughts as to how or why this could be and how I can get the other 19 indexed.

[smindsrt]

Yahoo is like that. New sites/pages appear then disappear for a while sometimes. If it is new give it sometime it will reappear. It took mine a couple of weeks once.

BTW, this forum only allows two sig's you should take down the other four. ;)

[jay88]

Thanks - but it isn't that a page(s) disappeared and I just need to wait for it to reappear. A newer page was spidered while older ones were not ??

and thanks for the advice on the sig

[Cygnus]

The Slurp crawler for Yahoo isn't all that good...I have older sites that are spidered frequently and don't get indexed in a timely manner.

The best way to get spiders looking at your sites is to get links from sites the spider visits frequently (i.e. get more backlinks). The acquisition of backlinks will solve many of your problems.

Cygnus

[seo guy]

Submitting http://www.seo-guy.com/directory/city-US-25-2-1701015/Web-Design-Boston.php would probably help :)

[Cygnus]

[QUOTE=seo guy]Submitting http://www.seo-guy.com/directory/city-US-25-2-1701015/Web-Design-Boston.php would probably help :)[/QUOTE]

You gotta love this guy -- a marketer through and through. But, he's right. That page will get spidered more than Charlotte's web....hmm, I like that analogy.

Cygnus

[andyspoon]

Hi Jay.

I have the same problem. I have old pages that have been recently deleted and replaced about 1 month ago with new pages. All new pages indexed in google and beta msn. But yahoo continues to index the deleted pages and has dropped almost all the new pages. This is after they shot to no1 for their search terms for a small period. Then, bingo. Gone from yahoo. Just wait. I'm sure they will return soon.

andy