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Hello,

After submitting new articles to directories and new pages to Social bookmarking sites, my new web pages got indexed on the 3rd or 4rd page on Google after 1 or 2 months. But I never found these pages on Yahoo.

I think because I don't pay for Yahoo to be included in their search engine.

Do we really have to pay to be included in Yahoo search engine?

Thanks,

Have a good day!

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Good, practical points from , , and . This note gives a compact, technical troubleshooting path for so the root cause can be found rather than guessing payment or luck.

Search engines crawl and index on different schedules and with different signals. Yahoo’s organic results have long been tied to Microsoft/Bing’s index, so a page that shows quickly on Google can still be unseen by Yahoo/Bing for technical reasons. Run these focused checks in this order:

  • Confirm the page is actually crawlable and returns a clean 200 response. Example check:

    curl -I https://example.com/your-page

    Look for 200 OK and no X-Robots-Tag: noindex.

  • Verify meta robots and canonical tags. A wrong rel="canonical" or noindex meta will hide a page from engines.

  • Inspect robots.txt for accidental disallows and test with Bing Webmaster Tools’ URL inspection (use the crawl/fetch feature there).

  • Check server logs for hits from crawler user-agents. A typical bingbot entry looks like:

    66.249.66.1 - - [01/Jan/2010:00:00:00 +0000] "GET /page.html HTTP/1.1" 200 1234 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)"

  • Use a precise site: query on both Google and Bing to confirm indexing differences; include a unique phrase from the page.

  • Review backlink signals: very thin pages with only low-value directory/bookmark links often don’t trigger indexing on slower indexes.

Next steps summary: run the HTTP/meta/robots checks, confirm crawler activity in logs, submit or request re-crawl via Bing Webmaster Tools, then monitor. This approach complements the usability and on-site work mentioned by and the webmaster-tool suggestions from by turning broad recommendations into specific diagnostics.

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Member Avatar for alpha25

I don't agree with you that it's difficult to get rank in Yahoo,you can get rank there but for this you must concentrate more on on-site optimization & use all Yahoo services to get link.

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You don't have to pay to get into Yahoo. Yahoo will typically send you less traffic than Google because the Yahoo search engine receives less traffic than Google, so there are fewer people to send. However, if you're not receiving a single visitor, then you may be blacklisted or just don't have what the Yahoo algorithm is looking for in terms of unique content, backlinks, etc.

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In my own experiences, you would only need to pay Yahoo when you want your sites to be included in their directory or if you want to perform PPC on Yahoo marketplace. Yahoo and Google would have different algorithm in indexing and ranking pages. I think submitting sitemap to Yahoo webmaster center and building back links for niche relative sources would be both helpful for this purpose.

all the best,

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Ah yes, I forgot there even was a Yahoo webmaster central place.

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You don't have to pay, Just do optimization and you will get rank on yahoo.

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