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[firedog]

Hi-

Had a major coporate site that lost all it's pages in the Yahoo Web Index (There was no spam at the site and it was still listed in the Yahoo Directory). Despite repeated attempts over 2-3 months, the "free submission" did not result in any pages being indexed.

After several attempts, I convinced the client to start Paid Inclusion for 6 pages which had fairly important information, lots of links to other pages on the site, and which I also deemed to have potential for high rankings (based on good results in Google).

The six pages immediately started getting good rankings and a modest amount of clicks.

Now after about 6 weeks, Yahoo has, on its own, re-indexed the entire site-hundreds of pages.

I suspect the existence of the PI pages in the index "caused' the spider to re-index the entire site based on the links on the PI pages.

Might be useful to know if you are ever in the same situation.

Danny

[Webmaster T]

Hmmm, unless Inclusion has changed since the last time I looked, links aren't followed off the indexed inclusion page. I assumed they were two separate indexes spidered by two different crawlers (UA). It is possible they are now indexing linked pages but I'd be more coinvinced if I knew the crawlers that crawled the pages. Not disputing it happened, just the notion that Inclusion had anything to do with full site indexing. I was under the impression that couldn't happen. Could be any one of Yahoo!'s crawlers (AlltheWeb, Altavista, Inktomi etc) could have been responsible for the site finding it's way back into the Yahoo! index.