junai3 - 3:03 am on May 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

I contacted Yahoo by going to this page:

[help.yahoo.com...]

and clicking "no" at the bottom. I then filled out the form with my question and got an email back from:

search-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com

a few days telling me they would take a look. It has been a week since then, and they contacted me today to tell me that yes my site does have a penalty.

They gave me a link to their guidelines as well as a link for a site re-review.

I am definitely guilty of breaking their guidelines as I have links pages where I trade reciprocal links. However, all my competitors have links pages, as well as every other SERPs that I have studied in Yahoo. So could this be the problem? Could I have gotten caught, while my competitors haven't? If I don't have links pages, I will loose position in other search engines.

I also have over a thousand of dynamically generated pages. Yahoo's guidelines say they don't like dynamic pages that make for similar content. However, each of my pages represents a real estate property - and they are very different. Could this be the problem? Most of my competitors have just a couple of hundred of pages.

Before I submit my re-review, I obviously need to fix the problem. Could it be the database pages? Or is it more likely the link exchanges and I've just gotten caught while my competitors continue with good rankings?