RichTC - 1:03 am on Mar 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

Outland - im glad someone else is seeing the same problem with Yahoo as i am.

Martin - Im sorry if my post came over as a rant, it is not. Im telling it exactly as i see it and helping the poster understand what works in Yahoo.

Im sure that a few webmasters that have been removed from the index will want to get back in but i genuinely think that Yahoo are doing very little about this SPAM problem. Millions of Spam sites do very well in Yahoo due to the methods i have outlined.

The Fact is that spam door way pages work a treat in Yahoo (i can give you thousands of examples if you sticky me) and the sub-sub-sub-sub-sub domain method again pays off big style in Yahoo (again i can give you great examples if you sticky me)and i have seen a volume of sites taking up 30-40% of the SERPS index for their related keywords using this method.

I have no issue with a sub domain where its a specialist area of a large site. I have a number of sub domains on my own site. But it is one thing having a site about widgets and then a few sub domains showing Red-widgets, Blue-widgets, Green-Widgets and another where its taken to stupid levels ie:-
shade-widget-full-widget-town-widget-region-widget-Red-widget-widget.domain

And again i genuinely think that the page the slurp bot sees should be the same as whats displayed in the SERPS. I do have an issue with this. Yahoo should not be encouraging webmasters to build doorway pages just full of spam keywords to feature high - they should be spending the time building content and rewarded for providing quality content the end user wants to see, this is the point im making.

Its not a rant its an observation