Does adding a Yahoo Store to an existing website hurt your Google keyword rankings?

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[EdStaton]

Thanks JoelHit for your suggestions.  I received them moments before travelling to an Air Force base that has had little Internet availability.  I'm finally connected and my research this afternoon indicates that Yahoo Sitebuilder does not allow 301 redirects.  I found this through a series of forums on that topic.  I'm researching your other suggestions now.

I also reviewed my SEOMOZ crawl on the site.  It's still dated March 2 and now reflects 24 improved rankings vs. 25 decreased rankings.  This baffles me.

[KeriMorgret]

How is your store doing now Ed? Did you figure out what happened or have any insights to share, or any more questions we can help with?

[TheeDigital]

Yes, a 301 permanent redirect should help.

[coreymanshack]

He probably does link from the main domain to the subdomain as he said he has been relying on affiliate sales but just launched his own store.

[BullionTradingLLC]

Hello,

I believe when you add Yahoo Store to an existing website is actually not  a bad idea, and as far as I know it doesn't affect the Google keyword ranking, but make sure you include the link to your Yahoo and that whatever you write on that page is current and updated.

[dellcos]

I feel you, and I know you posted this a long time ago, but the redirect feature within the Yahoo interface JUST NOW (last few months) became available.

As is the norm with Yahoo, It is the one of the worst designed and implemented features I've ever seen.

[LukeHutchinson]

+1 I'm personally extremely anal about WWW to none WWW. I actually asked a question the other day about an issue with /category/randomtext/category name as you could put random text between the category and the category name and it would not properly 301. A few people said that it does 301 but the permalink does not change or redirect. I tried it on a few different sites and they had the same issue but some would 404 or 301 properly.

I ended up removing the sub categories in fear that it could be exploited just like existing at WWW and none WWW can be.

[GKLA]

I think you should decide whether your site is an affiliate site or ecomm site.

If its an ecomm site - I'm not sure if adwords is a good idea (left nav). Your giving your visitors a very easy way to leave your site.

This may seem like a silly question - but why not run your main site/cart under one url on the yahoo platform?  By having a sub-domain I think you will have to do twice the amount of work to do, its like maintaining two different websites.

The Yahoo platform uses RTML which a lot of web developers are not familiar with.  But there is a forum dedicated to Yahoo store, which may be of interest - http://www.yourstoreforums.com

[WesleySmits]

Joelhit is completely right about the www and non-www version.
You should 301 one of them to the others to resolve the duplicate content issues or alternatively you could go to Google Webmaster Tools and let them know which one is your preferred version. This will only affect your issues for Google though. The first option remains the best.

To answer your question, no i do not think the yahoo store would have impacted your rankings so much.
Just make sure that you get your 301's setup and that you do not link to http://theheismanwinners.com/index.html but instead to http://theheismanwinners.com/. (Or the www. if you choose this as your preferred domain.)

I hope i answered your question. Let me know if anything was unclear.