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I have few sites listed in DMOZ doing great in Yahoo.....

I have more sites not listed in DMOZ , Google PR6 which Yahoo refuses to index..
EX. A search for "Alfaintercom" 194 pages in Yahoo refers to that site but the site itself is not listed some of them PR 6 or 7 in Google.
And I have 6 more sites like this one.

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described a common-but-frustrating pattern: internal pages visible in a search index while the site root or home page isn’t treated as indexed. That can come from simple technical blockers, canonical/redirect errors, or from link-quality/manual-action differences between engines — a point raised. Search-engine behavior also changed since this thread began: Yahoo’s results are now served from Microsoft’s index, so diagnosing Yahoo-like problems means using the Bing toolset rather than assuming parity with Google.

Quick, verifiable checks (do these first):

curl -I -L https://example.com/
curl -s https://example.com/robots.txt
curl -s https://example.com/ | grep -i "meta name=\"robots\|rel=\"canonical"
grep -i "bingbot\|slurp" /var/log/apache2/access.log

Those commands show HTTP status or redirects, any robots.txt blocks, meta robots/canonical tags, and whether Bing/Yahoo crawlers are visiting. If the homepage returns a redirect, a 4xx/5xx, an X-Robots-Tag: noindex header, or a canonical pointing elsewhere, that explains why the site root is omitted while inner URLs surface.

Next diagnostic steps and remediation: register and verify the site in Bing Webmaster Tools to submit a sitemap, inspect URL/indexing status, and view crawl errors or manual-action messages. Audit the backlink profile for sudden spikes or many low-quality exact-match anchors — echoing ’s concern — and log removal requests to hostile linking sites. Promotion ideas mentioned by help only after technical blockers are cleared. @yollyP’s “dance” remark is useful context: ranking can fluctuate, but persistent absence of a homepage points to a reproducible issue, not merely temporary volatility.

If technical checks are clean and webmaster tools show a manual action or unexplained suppression, compile server logs, crawl records, and backlink evidence and use the provider’s support channels to escalate.

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If you think the web pages have been banned by Yahoo, I'd be asking myself questions like what I did to raise Google PR that Yahoo dislikes so much.

I must conclude, from what little information you have supplied us with, it appears likely that you probably have participated in some kind of trashy link building strategy. Unfortunately, most of these link popularity boosting strategies are quite difficult to undo.

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If you think the web pages have been banned by Yahoo, I'd be asking myself questions like what I did to raise Google PR that Yahoo dislikes so much.

I must conclude, from what little information you have supplied us with, it appears likely that you probably have participated in some kind of trashy link building strategy. Unfortunately, most of these link popularity boosting strategies are quite difficult to undo.

is it meant some internal issues between Google & Yahoo regarding listing a site!!!! amazing !!!!

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No, it is meant that each of these two search engines' have some varying ways of ranking web sites and differing tolerances to various link manipulation schemes.

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If your site is not getting indexed, i would suggest you to submit your site to digg.com Coz, everybody knows that digg is the most popular bookmarking site and search engine keeps crawling that site.

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You are dealing with a "program" here so better follow the rules. You might have been included in the "yahoo dance" (like google dance:D .) Just keep your cool and study further - "what's the fuss all about".

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