SEO: Does Yahoo Get It With Site Indexing? NOT!
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen After a lot of pain, contacts and fixing, I'm not sure that they do. I am not going to name names or point fingers, but really, Yahoo seems to have completely lost it in the search engine wars. You put up a new website, create a sitemap, submit it to Google, Yahoo, and MSN ("live.com"), and you do everything right, including adding the new accepted "sitemap" directive to your robots file. Google jumps right on it. Within a day or so, virtually every entry in your sitemap is going to get indexed. If you ping them via the various RPC Ping server addresses and you have engineered the ability to update and use their Webmaster tools, the googlebot doesn't seem to have any trouble at all indexing your "stuff". That's coolio with me, because over a range of websites, I've found that the Googly Bear is responsible for 90% of my search engine traffic to the site. And -...