andrewshim - 2:42 am on Sep 23, 2008 (gmt 0)

Well blow me down. I'm back on page #1.

3 years ago, I ranked #1 for a big key phrase in my niche. Brought in nice, very targetted traffic. Then it dissapeared. Yahoo just didn't like me anymore. Went from #1 to oblivion then last year stayed at page #20++. Whatever I tried, Yahoo! just refused to move me from the tail end of the serps. Contacted Yahoo! twice. They gave a boilerplate reply about my site contravening one of their policies. The only thing I could think of was that Yahoo! refused to follow a re-direct for one of my major pages and just kept on spidering the new pages while keeping the old. In other words, as far as Yahoo was concerned, I had almost a thousand duplicate pages of content.

I've given up on Yahoo! because although I'm back on page #1, it may last just one day, one week or one hour. With Yahoo! I never know. In the meantime, I'm enjoying the extra traffic and earnings it brings.