Does yahoo still have an auction site?

Why is the branopolis free auction site not coming up on he yahoo search engine?

• Its registered with yahoo, well at least I thinik it is..

• Answer:

  Several reasons could contribute to this: 1) It's possible that the site was not properly submitted to Yahoo, (do this here: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit ) 2) the site has no XML sitemap at branopolis.com/sitemap.xml which would help things. 3) The main page TITLE and META DESCRIPTIONS are duplicate throughout the site, and improperly formatted. i.e. current way: <meta name="free online auction" content="Branopolis free online auctions, free classifeds, Classic autos for sale, autos for sale, computers for sale, sports equipment for sale, art for sale, collectables for sale, make money online"> The right way: <meta name="description" content="THIS SHOULD BE 165 characters unique to this particular page of content and with keywords targeted at the beginning of the sentence"> 4) -> Yahoo DIR paid inclusion. This costs $299 per year so you would remember if you paid for it or not. Provided you sign up for the appropriate category and your site follows yahoo directory guidelines, they will 'likely' choose to add you.->NOTE->> If you are denied, they still take the $299 fee! so read the instructions closely! 5) -> There is not currently a robots.txt file pointing to a valid XML sitemap nor is blocking any directories. 6) There any meta 'nofollow' or 'noindex' tags anywhere on the main page. Verifying the site with yahoo site explorer would be a very good move. After all of this, if it still does not show up, it is possible that for some reason Yahoo! has instilled some type of 'penalty' to the domain. It may or may not be possible to find out from someone at Yahoo if that is in fact the case, but you could try if all else fails. - Try Support forums and twitter to get a hold of yahoo people... @KRONiS on twitter...SEO Expert and Twitter Ninja