Comments on: Sixth Weather Report: Yahoo! Update Tonight

By: James Cozzy

James Cozzy — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:44:10 +0000

>>I feel it still fails to identify true authorities and quality. But getting better.
>>Query = Calvin Klein Perfume

http://www.perfumesand.com/calvin-klein-perfume.asp still in #1 position, but the rest of the spam is gone now. Big improvement in perfume online store business!

By: James D

James D — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 03:06:37 +0000

My website Wholesale Directory
comes up on the first pages of MSN and Yahoo for hundreds of terms like ,wholesale directory and wholesalers in usa, but I don’t get ANY traffic at all from Google..not even 1 a week,

How can this be ? How can I come first for one keyword in MSN but not even in first 1000 for same words in Google.Its baffling me..I sent emails to Google and get no answer..

By: Mark B

Mark B — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:14:57 +0000

Jeremy … thanks for responding. I think my frustration is coming from the fact that Yahoo used to be very good at including pages which perhaps gave some relevence to page titles in the search results. The rudeness comes from the fact that I am extremely frustrated trying to contact Yahoo and getting nowhere. The page I was referring to was the index page of Arlingtoncards.com. The other pages that come up in your result for the search ‘Arlington Heights Home of the Cardinals’ have multiple occurrences of the word ‘home’ or ‘Arlington’ but they don’t have the phrase ‘Arlington Heights Home of the Cardinals’ A search of the phrase enclosed in quotes DOES bring up Arlingtoncards.com. The whole Arlingtoncards.com site has about 1000 pages, which Yahoo! Search Site Explorer only shows about 261. It once detected over 560 … I think in early Fall of 2005. One of my important pages Arlingtoncards.com/aroundtown/foodrest3.htm dropped off of your index last Fall and has not been back (even though I have tried to submit it). That page alone used to get about 20 unique visits per day from Yahoo referrals. Today, I am lucky if all of my pages get 20 referrals from Yahoo! The search results that come up for keywords that I check seem very irrelevant. For example if I include Arlington Heights Illinois restaurants, I might get restaurants from Arlington, VA or real estate company pages from Illinois or even limousine company pages before any of mine show up in the results.

As far as my use of ‘accountable’ or ‘unreliable’ I would respectfully hope that relevant results would be the goal of your adjusting the ranking or whatever tweaking you do with the search engine. One additional thing regarding the restaurant page. Once upon a time, when I did a search for inlinks to that page I noticed that some other indexing spam type of sites had dozens of pages with very similar content that all included a link to my restaurant page. I have always had in the back of my mind that perhaps the action of those other companies (with absolutely no association to me) caused my page to be banned. Again thanks for your response

By: Mark B

Mark B — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:00:14 +0000

By: Jeremy Zawodny

Jeremy Zawodny — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:07:45 +0000

Aside from the page title, that text appears nowhere on your site. I’m guessing, though, since you didn’t include the URL for your site. I could be looking at the wrong one.

The tone of *your* message sound accusatory and rude to me. I’m not sure how differences in our ranking systems makes us “unaccountable” and “unreliable.” Can you elaborate on that?

By: Mark B

Mark B — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:08:55 +0000

My main page has the title ‘Arlington Heights Home of the Cardinals’ If I enter that text in Yahoo! I get nothing that leads to my site. I could accept that I wouldn’t be the top page. BUT NOTHING?!!! I gave up after checking 5 search result pages. I show up second tonight on Google.

How rude do you want to be Yahoo! How unaccountable do you want to be Yahoo! How unreliable do you want to be Yahoo!

By: peter

peter — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:21:17 +0000

I have 3 domains registered in 2003 that only have the main page indexed. ??? I have no clue why Yahoo de-listed all the other pages attatched to those domains and they won’t return my emails either :(

By: Tammy Ames

Tammy Ames — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:22:01 +0000

I’m still waiting for the Yahoo search engine to turn around again. For nearly a year, my site was getting more traffic from Yahoo than from Google and now the ratios is 1,000 to 1. I know that was a WAHM Resource site that is content based – articles with static pages that was getting 1500 visitors a month from yahoo which is now averaging around 100 visitors from the yahoo search engine makes no sense to me. At this point, I’m not sure where to turn for traffic from Yahoo. I still keep Yahoo for my home page and rely heavily on yahoo for news and blogs but I don’t use Yahoo anymore for searches because I have to wade back about 5 – 7 pages to find relevant sites for the keywords I have put in. Thank you.

By: Mark Bostrom

Mark Bostrom — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:35:41 +0000

In January 2005 Arlingtoncards.com received 1,895 referrals from search.yahoo.com. In December 2005 Arlingtoncards.com received 245 referrals from search.yahoo.com. This drop occurred while Arlingtoncards.com is a growing and thriving website with well over 1,000 pages of local directory information, historical information and news information, etc. designed for a local audience of people who live, work and play in Arlington Heights, IL. The site grows by 2-10 pages every week; and every week, I get comments from local individuals who are impressed by the information they find useful on Arlingtoncards.com. My return visitors are steady.

Nevertheless, by some act of Yahoo!, Arlingtoncards.com is not deemed worthy of sending web searching individuals from Yahoo! search pages. Yahoo! only indexes about 100 of the pages on Arlingtoncards.com. Web users are missing out on over 1,000 of Arlingtoncards.com pages, which are not spam, or cloaked, etc. There are ads on many pages, but they are ads that are content related which add value, not spam. At one time searches for ‘Arlington Heights news’ or Arlington Heights restaurants’ or ‘Arlington Heights weather’ brought users to Arlingtoncards.com. Now these search results bring a few useful other sites, but then a barrage of spam for real estate sites, limo sites or even an insect exterminator site.

Bottom line is I think Yahoo! has a lot of work to do. From my perspective Yahoo! has never been worse. Yahoo! news and Yahoo! finance are still the best, though.

By: Dik

Dik — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:07:58 +0000

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