Anyone else having trouble getting indexed by Yahoo, MSN, etc?

[deronsizemore]

Google seem to have every page on my site indexed, but Yahoo and MSN are terrible. For example, I think Google has 82 pages indexed for my site where Yahoo has 2 and I think 0 or 1 for MSN.

What the heck is the deal? I'm really starting to dislike every search engine but Google, lol. I don't really know what else to do. Someone suggested submitting to Yahoo's directory, but for $300 to submit, they're crazy.

[samwoodfin]

MSN and Yahoo were slower to index my site, too, but now, both of them have indexed more pages than Google.

And, yeah, paying to submit is crazy! They'll add the pages, eventually.

[4clubbs]

All I can tell you is, based on my site stats, there are A LOT of people out there searching for "Porky Pig" every day, and many of them end up at my personal site.

[deronsizemore]

MSN and Yahoo were slower to index my site, too, but now, both of them have indexed more pages than Google.

And, yeah, paying to submit is crazy! They'll add the pages, eventually.

Thanks. At least I'm not alone!

All I can tell you is, based on my site stats, there are A LOT of people out there searching for "Porky Pig" every day, and many of them end up at my personal site.

lol, that's pretty funny.

[doorlight]

Don't worry, Google is number 1 search engine already. *giggles*

[deronsizemore]

Don't worry, Google is number 1 search engine already. *giggles*

Yeah, not worried about Google..I'm just thinking about all the extra traffic I could be getting from the #2, 3, 4, etc. search engines out there.

[pbradish]

You can create a Yahoo sitemap to help them index your website.

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

[ses5909]

yeah for TBE i've got 1280 pages indexed in google and only 123 in yahoo.

[Jeremy]

Actually, I have more pages indexed in MSN and yahoo compared to google, which is odd. But, the additional pages are garbage comment urls and stuff.

That being said, I don't think you're missing much in the way of extra traffic. For every 38.71 google referrals I get, I'll have 1 visit from another search engine. That doesn't mean you should ignore the other engines, but as long as you keep updating content, and possibly provide a sitemap, it will get indexed. But in the meantime, don't fret about lost visitors.

[deronsizemore]

You can create a Yahoo sitemap to help them index your website.

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

Done that too. I suppose I've done it right. I assume that selecting "web site feed" is correct? I don't want any of the mobile feed options do I (mobile xhtml and mobile xml)?

[pbradish]

Yes, use your website feed. I'm not sure how much it will help, but it's certainly worth a try at this point.

[deronsizemore]

Yes, use your website feed. I'm not sure how much it will help, but it's certainly worth a try at this point.

This may be a dumb question, but here goes. When you say feed, are you referring to my RSS Feed (as in from feedburner?) or my sitemap template that I'm using? I guess I confused as when I added a sitemap to google, I simply told it to point to a template on my server called "sitemap," which is what I've done over at Yahoo, but when you say "feed" it makes me think of my RSS feed and now I'm confused. lol. :rolleyes:

Maybe their both considered "feeds?"

[samwoodfin]

Hey, Deron? I can't answer that feed question, but you can submit to the Yahoo directory for free (linky-link (http://add.yahoo.com/fast/add?17051064)). Would that help get your site indexed in the searches quicker?

[deronsizemore]

Hey, Deron? I can't answer that feed question, but you can submit to the Yahoo directory for free (linky-link (http://add.yahoo.com/fast/add?17051064)). Would that help get your site indexed in the searches quicker?

Oh, nice! didn't know about that. It definitely couldn't hurt. Thanks a lot :)

[samwoodfin]

Np :)

[pbradish]

I didn't realize there was a free directory submission for Yahoo. I always thought that it was pay per inclusion only ($300).

I wonder if they ever check it :) *cough* dmoz *cough*

submitted! Thanks for the link samwoodfin

[ses5909]

it's for non-profit sites so not sure what the rule is if you have ads on your sites.

[samwoodfin]

Not non-profit, so much as non-commercial. Some directories define "commercial" as corporate/business blogs. Some define it as anything with an ad (i.e., what? 95% of blogs?). I'm not sure how Yahoo! defines it. In any case, I submitted weeks ago, completely forgot about it until last night, I'm indexed, and nobody yelled at me. Thank Tao.

[ses5909]

yes, you're right.. Commercial is the correct term!