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stickym
Joined: Nov 17, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Nov-18 13:43
If I do a site:www.domainname.co.uk only my homepage appears. This has occured since the middle of August. Previously all my pages appeared in the index.Any ideas why this could happen as I thought a penalty would have got rid of the homepage as well
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lizardz
Joined: Nov 12, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Nov-19 03:48
Is there any reason you think a penalty might have been applied to your site? That seems the first question.
Did your server go down at any time? If it's down when the bot visits that's a bad thing.
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stickym
Joined: Nov 17, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Nov-19 08:40
know someone who is on a different server who has the same problem, but if there was a penalty why keep the homepage still there?
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lizardz
Joined: Nov 12, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Nov-19 20:05
So there is a penalty I take it? The home page is probably there just as a bookmark in their system is my guess. From everything I've seen, if you are penalized, but want to try again with Yahoo, dump the domain, rebuild the site, avoiding whatever you did that caused the penalty.
By the way, what do you think triggered the yahoo penalty, it's hard to find solid information on yahoo stuff.
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stickym
Joined: Nov 17, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Nov-19 20:25
the thing is, is it probably penalised as it does well in Google! There is nothing which as far as I know that is dodgy, no way I am rebuilding the domain and links from scratch! Been trying to get an answer of them but its pretty hopeless
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Logan
Joined: Aug 14, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Nov-19 20:42
Typically it is not penalized, especially when you have not taken steps that would cause it to be.
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stickym
Joined: Nov 17, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Nov-19 20:46
its a very straight forward site , there is definately nothing blocking it from spidering all the other pages. They were all there until a few months ago and then dissappeared so presume there is a penalty but what?
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lizardz
Joined: Nov 12, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Nov-20 01:02
is it probably penalised as it does well in Google
Different companies, different filters, different ways to determine penalties. A yahoo penalty won't affect google's rankings of your site, and a google penalty won't affect Yahoo's ranking.
But if your site was fully in the yahoo index before, and now it's not, a few things could have happened:
1 - your server is unreliable and was down when it was spidered by slurp.
2 - you got penalized for something that was working well before and then stopped working.
3 - were you paying sitematch or overture then cancelled your account?
Have you tried both versions of the site command?:
site:www.yoursite.com
and
site:yoursite.com
do both return only the home page?
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jkappu
Joined: Nov 01, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Nov-20 04:27
Hello
I dont think site is been penalized, if it happens then you should see your home page too in indexed list.
Visit yahoo cache page when you type www.yourdomain.co.uk and check whether latest page is been indexed. To make it more clear you can change title and meta description and upload to keep track of the same in Yahoo. If Yahoo index updates your page then just wait for days.
It will index all your pages, I too have faced the same with some of my client site. But now everything is fine all the pages are in Yahoo index.
Regards
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stickym
Joined: Nov 17, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Nov-20 13:01
lizardz,
dont think it would be server reliability as have other sites on the same one which are ok.
Havent had nothing to do with sitematch or overture.
Have tried both versions of the site command and both bring up just homepage.
jakppu,
looking at the cacher version it does have the latest changes I did a few days ago but its been like that a few months so cant see it picking up the rest of the site. I agree though that if it had been penalised then surely the homepage would have gone as well.
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krakus
Joined: Jun 13, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Nov-21 03:22
Do a search with various keywords as you would do in Google to locate your site. You can also cut and paste the title of your site or cut and paste sentences specific to your site. Try to find a search that is manageable too less than 100 results. If your index page appears at the bottom or near the bottom of the results you're penalized. If the index page is appearing normally in keyword searches you aren't penalized. Then your other pages could pop right back in within 6 days to 6 months.
This was a typical method of determining penalties in the old Inktomi and Yahoo initially. There are variations.
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