How long does it take Yahoo to index pages?

[Barry]

Yahoo indexed my homepage, which contained two links to a new webpage on the same website, over a week ago. I know this because of the date in Yahoo's cached version of my homepage (luckily I have a date on my homepage because Yahoo doesn't provide one). It's possible that Yahoo saw the link in an even earlier version of my homepage. Any idea when I should expect to see it in Yahoo's index?

Yahoo spiders my website about twice as much as Google, and Google's much quicker to index my new pages. In fact, Google has already indexed another new page that I created yesterday. I'm wondering how long I should wait before suspecting something is wrong. I once had another webpage using the same template that didn't get indexed by Yahoo until the day after I complained here and to Yahoo.

[v1monkie]

Hey, I have been recently indexed on yahoo for my website within like 4 days. Using RSS feeds and my Yahoo account.

Just one question though, I was on early today but for the last 4 hours I haven't been on the indexed. Any idea why?

[webkidsan]

are you checkign every hours if you are getting crawled ?... what are you achieving by doing it ... as long as it is gettign crawled properly that should be good enough ...

[Marcia]

are you checkign every hours if you are getting crawled ?... what are you achieving by doing it ... as long as it is gettign crawled properly that should be good enough ...webkidsan, getting crawled isn't good enough because getting crawled doesn't bring traffic. It's being listed and having rankings that's good, because that's what gets the page seen and brings the traffic.

Yahoo isn't as quick as they used to be with adding new sites/pages to the index. They eventually make it in (how long can depend on certain factors), but there's no point in getting worried over it unless it's been a long, long time.

[ChadLedford]

and if it has been a long long time, then what?

[Marcia]

I changed the nameservers for a parked domain to hosting the evening of the 14th (night before last) and within an hour the site resolved and I put up a "coming soon" page. Before I had a chance to put up a robots exclusion, Yahoo's crawler was there and fetched the homepage and robots.txt

I don't know if it was added to the index yesterday, but sure enough it was in there today with a URL only listing.

If I can think up something temporary to put up, I'll add a page or two and some text to the homepage and see how long it takes for Slurp to get there and for the other two pages to turn up in the index.

Yahoo indexed my homepage, which contained two links to a new webpage on the same website, over a week ago. I know this because of the date in Yahoo's cached version of my homepage (luckily I have a date on my homepage because Yahoo doesn't provide one). It's possible that Yahoo saw the link in an even earlier version of my homepage.Barry, what do you mean by an earlier version of your homepage, if it went up a week ago. And are there any inbound links to the pages on the site?