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Why does Yahoo index only few pages of the site despite it being a popular site that does well in all other search engines?
For Yahoo this is the typical sign of a ban. Go over everything on the site. Pay special attention to any linking that might appear to be the least bit dubious; Y! (and historically Inktomi) has always been quicker to pull the trigger on this issue.
Generally sites tend to be removed the ‘most’ from what I have seen and experienced due to linking, whether it be interlinking sites on the same network, extensive and reciprocal linking between pages, and even linking out to other directories from a directory-style site.
Junk SERPs is probably the best cause.
Once a site gets a “judgment against it”, as they phrase it, you can forget it in Yahoo.
I know Yahoo is near the top of Alexa, but if you look deeper, all their traffic is under Mail, not search! and that is very true. See the below data. When Yahoo was carrying Google’s results, we saw a solid 5 times the traffic from G.
Here is the data for similar audience
search.myspace.com 117
en.wikipedia.org 116
collect.myspace.com 116
login.myspace.com 116
profileedit.myspace.com 116
bulletin.myspace.com 115
viewmorepics.myspace.com 115
And the top subdomains of yahoo are mail.yahoo.com with 67.5%, login.yahoo.com with 59.8%, search.yahoo.com with 19.3%.
To conclude, Yahoo deindexes the pages only when it pulls a trigger on the site.
Whatever the filter may be You can actually see that Yahoo indexes or deindexes the site faster than Google does