outland88 - 2:11 am on Apr 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

>We know that there are cases where some people don't realize why they are in violation or that have good content but also are doing things to boost their rankings and therefore are in violation.

So What!

Mike,

I reviewed sites for six years for a smaller search engine. Unless somebody could produce ample evidence that a site was spamming with thousands of pages or many domains I didn’t play around with ruining people’s livelihoods. I took it for granted people were using techniques to increase their rankings. But that didn’t establish anything per sec or that they were doing anything wrong except in the eyes of the beholder. If you step to far outside of what other search engines are doing you can hurt a lot of businesses.

Yahoo needs to cut the silliness and nitpicking out and start lifting some of these penalties double quick. If a site’s not using cloaking, redirects, hidden text, dozens of domains, or at least 150 pages lets put them back in and quit hurting people's cash flow.

Somebody at Yahoo needs to step up to the plate and let the top dogs know your methods are antiquated. But then again that could jeopardize your cash flow like the rest of us.