Disappearing From Yahoo?

[RSLancastr]

As reported elsewhere on the board, I recently started up a new web site: www.StopKaz.com.

I submitted the site to Yahoo, and after some time, the site showed up when searching on Yahoo.

Then it stopped appearing on Yahoo.

Then it started again.

As of this writing, it as stopped showing up on Yahoo again.

It should show up under a simple search for "demille-jacobsen" but does not.

Anyone know what the reason for this on-again, off-again listing could be?

Also, any suggestions on the best/cheapest way to get listed on other engines would be appreciated. Things sure have changed in the years since I last submitted a site to the engines. It used to be a fairly simple process.

 

[geni]

There are varius free bit of free softwear that will submit you to several search engins but since you are listed on google (the only way I was able to bring it up though was by typing in stopkaz as one word) and yahoo I'm not sure if any futher listing matters. The clasic reason for a page dissapearing is that the page is down when the bot goes looking for it so it assumes the page no longer exists.

 

[RSLancastr]

Thanks, geni.

And today, the site is back on Yahoo.

I find it hard to believe that their bots check the entire web THAT often... Or even just my site that often.

Weird.

And yes, Google has the domain name (StopKaz.com) searchable, but not the site, content-wise. I'll try to figure that one out.

 

[geni]

have you tried submiting pages beside the main page to the search enigins. Submitting http://www.stopkaz.com/frames.htm would increase your key word density quite a bit.

 

[RSLancastr]

I was under the impression that if you submitted the home page, the rest of the site would get "crawled" and put into the search engine.

Not true?

 

[Rat]

Varies from crawler to crawler. Most search engines have faqs that answer some questions along these lines, though they are sometimes cagey about exactly how their crawlers work.

Do you not have access to the server logs? Certainly Google's crawler is easy enough to spot in the logs, and I suspect others are too.

Cheers,
Rat.