Hi all,

Last week submitted a site map to Yahoo! in the hope that they would start to index more of my pages.

I've been watching it closely with y! Site Explorer but in the last 2 days the number of my indexed pages had dropped from 455 to 20!!!

Any idea's why indexed pages have fallen out?

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Hi,

It's not uncommon for Yahoo to spider and index new sites for a couple of months and later drop them to home page only.

What's the site url and we can have look?

Cheers,
Paz.

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10.3 million entries for Hotels in Turkey but I'm still chipping away.

Our targeted keywords is not yet index in Yahoo. How can I promote our site to Yahoo search engine.

Yahoo likes strong backlinks. You'll get indexed fully after 6 months of "standard" kink building eg free directory backlinks, but I've found that if you blog like mad or get a PR7 link you can speed this up.

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10.3 million entries for Hotels in Turkey but I'm still chipping away.

This happens with Google and MSN, too. They are constantly in flux as they update their indices and their algorithms. It will return to normal soon unless you have been doing something that warranted this (and only you know if you have).

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IMO, it happens naturally. i think just continue optimizing your site and it pay off

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Hi, although Yahoo too has introduced its own sitemap system, but a large number of webmasters who have experienced different sitemap format believe that it might not be as efficient and powerful as Google's.

In addition to having a urllist file, try improving your website sitemap page as well.