Yahoo deletes my website!

Why did yahoo delete my website

[yenny8a]

After more than 1 month of waiting Yahoo listed my website, which I spent at least 100 hours working on. I was rapped.

Within 24 hours, Yahoo removed my website again.

I see no reason for this?!

My website does not have any adult content, is very relevant to the topic and virtually has 100% uptime with NO advertisments. The website also makes NO MONEY, and it purely there to help other people.

Does anyone know why Yahoo is behaving so strangely?

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[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 8:49 am (utc) on Dec. 7, 2003]
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[normaldude]

Get rid of the splash page.

Get rid of all that Flash for navigation.

I surf without Flash, so your website looked really hacked up to me. If you use Flash, keep it on the side (like a product demo). Definitely no splash pages, and don't rely on Flash for navigation.

[yenny8a]

Ok thanks for the tip, I was planning on removing the flash nav menu.

Just one thing though - why no flash buttons and splash pages? tons of sites listed on Yahoo use Flash navigation menus. Also, how can they tell whether I created my own flash stuff or not?

[normaldude]

tons of sites listed on Yahoo use Flash navigation menus.

Maybe those websites have alternative images for Flash disabled browsers. So Flash disabled visitors won't see blanks all over the place. Overall, it's just considered bad practice to rely on Flash for navigation. Your website should never "blow up" because someone has Flash disabled.

So I'd recommend using straight HTML & images for the navigation. Almost all the successful, market leading websites - Amazon, Yahoo, Ebay, Google, Dell, etc - follow a similar strategy of keeping their sites simple, and available to even the worst browser on the worst bandwidth. Their websites look fine whether their visitor is using Netscape 3.0, a PDA on GPRS, or an Opera browser on Linux.

This SearchEngineWorld.com article summed it up best:

..The simpler the better. Rule of thumb: text content should out weight the html content. The pages should validate and be usable in everything from Lynx to leading edge browsers. eg: keep it close to html 3.2 if you can. Spiders are not to the point they really like eating html 4.0 and the mess that it can bring. Stay away from heavy: flash, dom, java, java script.
[searchengineworld.com...]

Flash is best used on the side, like for a product demo. Here's an example of how Amazon.com uses Flash as a product demo: [amazon.com...]

[heini]

Yenny8a, what exactly do you mean when you say Yahoo listed your site: Did you pay for inclusion into their directory? Did the site got listed in the directory for free? Or did yiur site show up in the regular websearch on Yahoo?
Flash or not, this is completely secondary to the question why your site first did show and now does not.

[yenny8a]

heini, my site was ranked No.1 for a particular keyword, and now it has completely disappeared. I used FREE submission and waited more than 1 month. Persoanlly I dont see why Yahoo would ban me for having a Flash menu - it seems absurd.

If the Flash menu is really a problem, I am coding a dHTML menu for it's replacement and should be online after Christmas. But still...

Thanks for the help!

[Mario]

Are you sure it was listed by Yahoo and not just a part of the Google search results that Yahoo serves up anyway? Yahoo would usually email you to say you were included in their directory - if this didn't happen then you were never *in* Yahoo, strictly speaking.

[ogletree]

yenny8a there has been a recent update at Google a lot of people fell of without knowing why. Google provides the results for Yahoo.

[yenny8a]

Ok thanks guys for the information! I was just a bit angry about the drop about because my site is a non commercial community service site, providing health information which I spent tons of time working on. The site does not sell anything and has completely no advertisments. It's up time is virtually 100%