Yahoo never crawls my site?

[wildheart]

When I just started my forum 1 and 1/2 months ago I stupidly and naive submitted my forum on all those sites that will list it on the search engines for free. Only after doing so did I read that you will get penalized if you submit a site too often.

Is this maybe the reason why I never see yahoo and if you think it is the problem, how can I fix it?

 

[froggyboy604]

I heard that putting your link in your sig, and posting on related forums can help your website get index faster.

Also use Anchor text related to your forum like "General Chat Forum" instead of example.com since Anchor text can make your website rank higher for keywords like "General chat"

But, your forum should also have enough quality posts before you promote it by linking your forums link on sigs, and websites.

Commenting on blogs might also help your forum get index by Yahoo.

 

[Fergal]

The forum in your sig is indexed in Yahoo as you can see here. So they have crawled your site at some time and will probably will do so again, the busier your site gets and the more content that is added to it, the more regularly they will crawl your site for updates.

 

[wildheart]

Thanks for your response! I promise it wasn't showing when I looked on yahoo. 🙂

"Also use Anchor text related to your forum like "General Chat Forum" instead of example.com since Anchor text can make your website rank higher for keywords like "General chat""

Where do you use anchor text, sorry I am sure it is a stupid question?

 

[CyberFreak]

[url=http://link.com]Keyword[/url]

Example: Forum Promotion

Use this when promoting on other sites and in your signatures on other forums.

 

[wildheart]

Ok I am with you, instead of putting up my forum address I must rather use a key word that are related to my site. :great:

Unfortunately other reptile and parrot forums kick you off straight away when you promote your site so the signature part does not help me on similar sites. :sad:

 

[cpvr]

When I just started my forum 1 and 1/2 months ago I stupidly and naive submitted my forum on all those sites that will list it on the search engines for free. Only after doing so did I read that you will get penalized if you submit a site too often.

Is this maybe the reason why I never see yahoo and if you think it is the problem, how can I fix it?

Have you been building your backlinks? That's how spiders find your :great: site.

 

[Fergal]

...Unfortunately other reptile and parrot forums kick you off straight away when you promote your site so the signature part does not help me on similar sites. :sad:

Have you been making helpful posts on their forums? Most forum Admins won't ban you like that unless they feel that you are being spammy.

 

[froggyboy604]

Have you ask similar sites if they want to do a link exchange with you?

 

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