hbirnbaum - 8:20 am on May 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yidaki,

What do you mean by the "directory" I have? I don't quite understand what you mean; please clerify so I can understand...

Also, it *is* possible that one of the sites I was linking to did get penalised. I had a links page that linked to about 8000 on topic web sites. If a few of those were to get penalised, I would never have known about it. I have not checked all of them, but they're gone now anyway.

After the PR0, I completely removed the affiliate links and the links pages entirely. I hardly link out at all now; only to large corporate sites.

As for the re-direct. The site is a Yahoo store, so it is hosted by Yahoo. So, the site can be listed as mydomain.com or store.yahoo.com/storename/. I do not have any control over this. A lot of Yahoo stores are listed well in Google, and don't seem to have been affected.

I do use a re-direct from the Yahoo domain to my domain for technical reasons, having to do with the user history cookie on the web site. It has nothing to do w/ search engines. It's there for technical reasons so my site will function properly.

Can this kind of re-direct cause a problem? As far as I know, it only re-directs to my domain when you come in on the Yahoo domain. Does this clear it up? Is this a problem?