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Ive have 10 sites I built on Wordpress, 5 of them are ranked on the first page of Yahoo and Altavista and nothing on Google, what happend, Why? What could be wrong as to why they are not ranked on Google..
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Troy

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Several replies correctly pointed at content and promotion, but the immediate problem is most likely a crawl/indexing block rather than a pure ranking issue. Before chasing backlinks or more posts, run a short diagnostic to confirm whether Google can see and index those WordPress sites; the fixes below are the usual culprits when a site appears in Yahoo but is missing from Google.

Quick diagnostic checklist:

  • Run site:example.com (replace with the domain) and cache:example.com to see what, if anything, Google has indexed and when it last cached a page.
  • Verify Search Console for each domain (Coverage, URL Inspection, Manual Actions/Security). Look for messages about blocked resources, noindex, or manual penalties.
  • Inspect robots.txt at http://domain/robots.txt for Disallow: / or Googlebot-specific blocks.
  • View page source for <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> or X-Robots-Tag HTTP headers. In WordPress check Settings > Reading for “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” and any SEO plugin settings that mark pages as noindex.
  • Check <link rel="canonical"> values and ensure canonical points to the correct (www/non-www, http/https) host. Confirm the server returns 200 for the pages and not 403/404/500.

If a blocking directive, plugin setting, password protection, or canonical error is found, remove or fix it, then use Search Console’s URL Inspection / Request Indexing and resubmit the sitemap. If all technical checks are clean but pages are still absent, investigate duplicate content across the multiple WordPress installs (Google often chooses one canonical copy) and examine server logs to confirm Googlebot access.

Notes tied to earlier replies: and were right that content and promotion matter long-term, but the above technical checks are the priority when Google shows nothing at all. Avoid quick, risky link schemes; resolving indexing blocks and uniqueness issues will reliably restore visibility.

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Member Avatar for Rudalfseo

It may happened that your site in yahoo but not in Google. Both have different strategies for ranking and crawling a site. But if you want high ranking in Google. Start adding good article in your site. Promote site in all high PR sources.

Member Avatar for InsightsDigital

You need to add content, content, and more content - both in frequency and in quality in terms of keywords. This way you are strengthening your site.

Member Avatar for santimock

The algorithm is different, but basically yahoo is slower to rank websites.

Member Avatar for AirForceOne

Essentially, it is different algorithm make this difference. I think Yahoo usually gives more weight if you have your keywords in the domain name and in your site navigation link system.

Have a nice day,

Member Avatar for infinique

Google ranks their sites differently from MSN and Yahoo. Try building more High PR dofollow backlinks to your website.

Member Avatar for mackone

Each search engine uses different algorithms. Google likes content, backlinks and all sorts of things.

Member Avatar for trobison

great thanks again for all the info...whats the best way to find out how to build back links?
Thanks again,
Troy

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