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Either way, someone has to have a recourse, to either prove that he didn't do anything bad, or that he stopped doing that and have the possibility to start somewhat fresh. Both webmasters and bots make mistakes...
2. Address the duplicate issue. Do it like Google does. It indexes both of them and then removes the one with less links (I think). I used re-write and I was told not to worry about it, just replace the links in the sitemap with the new ones. A month later everything was updated by Google. No dupes, no ban, no penalty. They realize that sites change and even if you're trying to cheat them, they don't let you to because they'll remove one.
3. If soemone links you (or you pay pays for one), and then that site is determined to be a "bad site" from Y! Slurp, just minus whatever boost you would've gotten from that link. Otherwise, all a competitor has to do is sumbit your site to every FFA or blog on earth and you're banned or penalized for no fault of your own. Y! should make a list of bad sites, and those sites don't pass a rank or anything to the sites linked.
what can you add?
