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In the top 10 of the serps was Yahoo's own listing.
"<Attraction Name> <City> at Yahoo Travel"
<Attraction Name> and other <City> entertainment in the Yahoo Travel Directory.
When I clicked the link I was redirected to the main Yahoo travel page where I could, of course, book travel to this particular city.
I was curious and went back to the serps. No cached page. Couldn't believe that Yahoo would spam their own engine in such a way and clicked the link again. Same thing.
How can any Webmaster compete in an environment like this? How can Yahoo be trusted anymore?
However, they owe their users and webmasters fair and impartial guidelines that are enforced across the entire internet. Instead of this they are hand editing a small percentage of sites and enforcing their guidelines subjectively.
The difference between G and Y is that G's guidelines are enforced algorithmically and evenly across the entire web. Y has a room full of human editors reviewing a handful of sites. Their guidelines are so vague as to potentially exclude every single site from the index.
When some 30K/year recent college grad working for Yahoo either has a bad day, doesn't like your site, or doesn't understand the guidelines you run the risk of having your business cut off at the knees while your competition thrives.
Yahoo owes fairness, not inclusion.
Yahoo doesn't owe anyone a listing in their search engine.
For exampel if you as an user search for an company you used last year, but donīt remember the url of the company, if you type that company name as an user you should find it, even if itīs been penalized.
Necesarry spammy sites musnīt meen bad companys.....
Penalizings should only bee for keywords.
I think they do unless there are some especial circumstances. Since it promises to give us the most relevant search results it is not supposed to slant the results to less relevant results for its financial agenda.
Suppose someone types in famous "brandx", one would expect brandx site to be presented soemwhere near the top. If instead, Yahoo went ahead and removed brandx from its index arbitrarily because it refused to pay a large ransom amount and instead searchers find Yahoo's affiliates selling brandx products, I think brandx has a case and so do the searchers.
However, if Yahoo clarly stated on its search page that it is going to show manually-edited results to help its business partners and might not even show sites who refuse to pay, nobody is going to object.
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Does Google have its yellow pages content?
Gogal Local
The vast majority of Yahoo's current screwups are the result of a lunkheaded technology problem, which I believe we are about to see a solution to.
There are a lot of people here being mislead that they have been hand penalized when that is not the case.
implementing processes to be more even handed across sites on the web.
That would be progress, because some of what we're seeing now is pretty capricious.
There are a lot of people here being mislead that they have been hand penalized when that is not the case.
would be interested to hear how you come to that conclusion. Email replies from Yahoo stating EDITORIAL PENALTY and constant postings by Tim and Yahoo_mike suggesting hand penalties would seem to indicate otherwise.
I hate to generalize, but there is another thread started on the same idea so... if your whole domain is completely absent, think hand penalty. If your main page plus possibly a few pages are missing, think "redirect glitch" (which should be fixed soon).
My site is 90% indexed in Yahoo but ive been told it has an editorial penalty by Yahoo so wont show for a search of anything. So this doesnt seem to tally with what you are saying. I can pull some sub pages with a title search which brings them up around 5 or 6 froma few hundred results but thats it. The only consistent thing i can see for a penalty is the spidering many times daily of the robots.txt and then leaving without taking anything else.
On the other hand, many people are seeing a page-centered problem (usually the main page) where interior pages will rank just fine. The folks with the page-centered problem are experiencing something different than you are.
