As domain owners we sometimes are in disillusion that a parking page is a website. It’s not. Sometime or highly rich keyword domains shows up in the top of the top of the Yahoo Japan search results & usually some company that wants to rank for that keyword complains & wham your parking page is de-indexed.

Have you ever looked through your parking stats from 2 years ago & noticed certain domains had some traffic & now have none? You might be the victim of being de-indexed. I have at least 10 or so domains that someone named their site exactly or almost exactly the same as my IDN domain. Both .jp & .com this has happened. So one which is travel related there is a company who has the ASCII (romaji version) & promotes it a quite a lot. When I looked at my parking stats it had so little traffic. Then I tried to search for it on Yahoo. It didn’t show up.

Please note if you search for your IDN with EXT & it doesn’t come up first most likely you have been de-indexed.

So what do you?

Deindexing on Yahoo Japan is not permanent. You can easily get reincluded in about a month. When I noticed my domain was gone this is what I did.

1. Move it to another server, anywhere.
2. Put up a few pages of content or in my case & uploaded an empty wordpress blog.
3. Put a few links pointing to it.
4. In about one month your site will be back in Yahoo Japan’s index.

You can switch back to parking if you want after that as your complainer may not be aware of your site being back up so soon.

I want to explain the logic behind it.

Parking Pages are getting more popular in Japan Yahoo can easily determine to de-index it as it’s NOT a website.

An unfinished or bad looking website cannot be easily de indexed by complaint’s because it still in a website. Yahoo staff doesn’t have the right to de index a web site because it looks bad, or it’s not finished unless lots of sites start overtaking the search results like this.