jdwaverly - 9:01 pm on Apr 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

I understand and agree with Yahoo decreasing the ranking of content containing common Affiliate feeds.
... and possibly ranking other more useful content on that same site in a more positive way.
...but I'm not talking about ranking.

Yahoo is Banning such sites because they contain such content...regardless of how unique or useful the rest of the site may be.

If anyone is interested, I can PM dozens of sites(not my own BTW) that

(a)Are blocked from Yahoo
(b)Contain very useful content to a specific audience
(c)The only apparent reason for their ban is that they derive profit from Affiliate links.

While other Large sites in the same niche(probably handpicked) remain in the index.

These are NOT autogenerated or scraper sites which interestingly still remain in the index!

BTW, here it is straight from Yahoo Mike:
[webmasterworld.com...]

Read the thread VERY carefully and it becomes very clear what is happening.