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[meetpulkit]

Hi there

Well, after a long time Yahoo! has indexed my page but with the Old Title and Desription I don't know how Yahoo! got that but it has.

I have send some feedback(help us to improve) to them but no results yet. Can any body tell me What can I do now.

Is there any way other then waiting for it to happen with the time.

Also, What are the tips to Optimize a page for Yahoo!.

Thanks

Pulkit

[magellan]

You are just going to have to wait unless you want to sign up to Site Match...

[Randy]

Yahoo! will update their index the next time they spider your site Pullkit. My sense is that they're not quite as fast as Google is in accomplishing this task, based upon what I see with my sites. G tends to update changes on my sites very quickly, within a day or two of the change. Y! seems to take a week or two.

Relax! Half the battle is won. At least Yahoo! knows your site exists. So you must have a link pointing to your site from another site that is already in their index. That's the most important part after all.

[Randy]

While I'm thinking about it, I'm conducting a little test with a brand new site I stuck up yesterday afternoon for the first time. It has a single incoming link from another smallish (PR3) site to get the search engines attention.

Googlebot visited the older site last night. Literally two minute later Googlebot also hit the new site, grabbing the robots.txt file and the main index page only. So you can see that Googlebot is pretty darn quick at picking up those new links. I'll keep an eye on the logs to see how quickly it comes back to spider more deeply.

Yahoo! Slurp has not yet been back by the older site yet. It last visited a couple of days ago. I'll keep an eye out for that also, to see how quickly it grabs the new site once it knows it exists.

[Grumpus]

I put up a new site in early March. Like others, I was a bit frustrated by Google's recent behaviour and was curious about how Y! would handle it. On both engines, the front page was in there within about 72 hours from linking it from my design site. It dropped out of Google 24 hours later and it all but vanished completely until the next update. Once the update occured, my front page got in and it's been in since. Internal pages are now going through the "in-and-out" game and I expect they'll do so until the next update.

Yahoo has had my front page in all along, but hasn't gotten anything else.

Don't know how much use that all is, but feel free to add it to your anecdotal statistics lists.

G.