What is
your Yahoo! page index?
Your Yahoo page index is simply the number of pages
from your website that Yahoo has in its database (index).
This is also referred to as Search Engine (SE) Saturation i.e. how much
of your site has been seen by the SE.
How do you
improve your Yahoo! page index (SE Saturation)?
In one word: Links!
Navigational / Internal Links
Site Map Links
Inbound Links
A) If your site already ranks
well in Yahoo:
Site Map:
If you have pages that you would like Yahoo to see / index, build a
site map and link to those pages from your sitemap.
Navigational / Internal
Links:
Linking from one page to the next will help Yahoo follow and index all
the pages that needs indexing.
B) If your site does
not rank well in Yahoo, or if you have trouble getting certain pages
indexed:
External Links:
Linking from an external high ranking website or directory is one of
the best ways to get your pages noticed.
Buy
external links
Links to your home page:
Pointing links to your home page will not only
strengthen your web ranking, but will also point Yahoo’s spiders
to your website and cause then to index every page that they can see
linking from your home page.
Deep linking:
Linking from an external website directly to a sub pages on your site (deep linking), will insure that the
page in question gets seen / indexed by Yahoo. Your sub page search
ranking will also improve.
How to
check your Yahoo! page index:
Search directly in Yahoo! to find out how many pages of your website has been
included in the Yahoo database / index:
Type the following into the search field on: Yahoo: site:www.yourdomain.com
Site
Index Query/www.
The
site search “site:www.yourdomain.com” allows you to view
all the pages that Yahoo! filed in its index.
|
Search Engine
|
Index Query
|
Example
|
Search Results -
10/2006
|
|
Yahoo!
|
site:www.
|
site:www.yahoo.com
|
about 48,729 pages
|
|
Yahoo!
|
site:www.
|
site:www.google.com
|
about 14,164 pages
|
|
Yahoo!
|
site:www.
|
site:www.msn.com
|
about 8,678 pages
|
Site
Index Query/sub-domains
The
site: search without the www. will return results for
www.yourdomian.com + yourdomian.com + sub-domain(s).yourdomian.com.
|
Search Engine
|
Index Query
|
Example
|
Search Results -
10/2006
|
|
Yahoo!
|
site:
|
site:yahoo.com
|
about 453,703,556 pages!
|
|
Yahoo!
|
site:
|
site:google.com
|
about 1,782,632
|
|
Yahoo!
|
site:
|
site:msn.com
|
about 73,316,145
|
Page Index
Check
How
to check your Google page index
How
to check your MSN page index
Link
Popularity Check
How to Check your MSN
Inbound Links
How to check your
Google Inbound Links
|
|
