stuno259 - 5:25 pm on Nov 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

I'm seeing the same thing for a couple generic one word terms that I used to rank well for, but two word terms are still ranking okay with yahoo and my serps for the one word terms actually improved if I add the -adsf flag.

Title of my home page is something like this:
"Large Steel Red Widgets"

I used to rank well in yahoo for:
widgets
steel
large widgets
steel widgets
red widgets

Now I only get the two word combos and my yahoo traffic has been cut in half. A search for

widgets -adsf

actually shows that my serps have gone up for that term. Perhaps some kind of penalty for repeating those keywords too many times? I have a very high keyword density for the generic words.