I’m back today after a 3 day business trip to New York. My first time there, unfortunately didn’t get to see much, but got a few good pictures.

Anyhow, there will be a few posts coming up that I have been thinking on and saving up to dish out upon my return.

In this post I wanted to pick on the Yahoo Panama editorial process a little.

First of all I do admit that it is much better than it was pre-Panama, and is still better than MSN. I do find things pretty painful with it still however. Today, as an example, I added about 1000 keywords to an account on Yahoo. Now for whatever reason, the client’s site was being really slow around the same time. So I ended up having about 75 keywords get Declined in the editorial because the pages were taking too long to load. The landing pages do actually work…

Now what do I do? Well I could resubmit them via the bulk, but then I would have to either do the whole sheet again, or one by one pull out the ones that got Declined.

It seems to happen a lot, the pages work but Yahoo isn’t able to spider them for some unknown reason at that time. This isn’t the first or I’m sure the last time I will have issues with the editorial process.

Lots of times it just seems like Yahoo kills keywords for no apparent reason, I’m guessing its because of their spider.

What I would suggest to Yahoo is to add a delay to flagged keywords, but make them active and marked “Pending”. If the spider fails the first time, put it in a 12 or 24 hour queue before you try again and then kill it. That will, or should, give 2 chances for the editorial spider to test a landing page, but not axe it right off the bat.

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