rjwmotor - 6:22 am on Jan 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

"if you are ranking well in Google & MSN,
especially if your site has been around for a while, but no where to be found in yahoo, chances are you are banned."

I don't think this is necessarily the case at all. We do rank for some minor search terms pretty well but not our major kw's on y. We've been around for about 5 years and I put most of the blame on poor updates and subpar algorithms. It's been stated in other threads that Y's current algo is having a hard time getting the most appropriate page for a particular kw on a site to rank. Example-A search for "blue widgets" brings up the "widget" home page instead of the page dedicated to "blue widgets". I think this is our main problem but there's nothing we can do about it but wait for Y to come to there senses and turn down some filters. We have pages on our site that haven't been updated in years that outrank much more relevant newer(about a year old) pages.