Live Search & Yahoo! Search are not indexing my blog
A couple of days ago I wrote about how to get your blog indexed by Live Search & Yahoo! Search. While the process itself was quite straightforward the result is really disappointing. At the moment Live Search still hasn’t updated its index although it has downloaded my sitemap already a couple of days ago.
With Yahoo! the situation is a little bit more satisfying. Yahoo Slurp (their crawler) has accessed the site and some pages appear on the index already. The real problem is that I’m really bad ranked for some reason. When you search for tobman (my current Google Nr. 1 position) you find my blog on the 7th result page… That’s really bad. Even worse: if you search for other really high ranked posts (e.g. cakephp mac or cakephp breadcrumbs) the result is not the relevant post but just the general link to tobman.com. Of course this is not appealing to anybody searching for those terms. As a reason I currently get 0 traffic from Live Search and Yahoo! Search.
And then on the other hand there is Google. What a pleasure! My blog currently has 26 posts, 25 of them are indexed on Google! It was really interesting to see that after my Index fiasko Google gained “trust” from day to day and added more of my posts to its index. It now takes roughly one hour for a new post to appear on the Google search engine. I think this is really amazing and just shows from a webmaster’s point of view why Google is just so superior to Live Search & Yahoo! Search.
I will try to find out if there is anything that I can do about improving results with Live Search & Yahoo! Search and will let you know of course! If you have experience yourself please feel free to comment this post!