FranceFan - 8:01 pm on Sep 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

I have a 6 month old site. Every month (until this week), my link count has grown and this has shown up when I do a Yahoo LINKDOMAIN command.

This week, my total number of links continues to go up (from about 600 to about 700), but when I go to look at the list of links (The one with the message "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the ones already displayed.") the count of "non-similar links" has plunged from 400 to 230.

Looking at the list of links, it seems to me that this is PARTLY explained by Yahoo excluding almost all of my WEB site pages (I can only see 2 pages unless I tell Yahoo to "repeat the search with the omitted results included"). Before, many of my pages were included. My pages are all good unique content which I've written myself.

At the same time, my position in Yahoo for my keyword (ok, a 2-word phrase) has droped from 62 to 84.

Can anyone explain why this is happening. Has Yahoo changed this week the way it calculates links?