Yahoo ARE listening

Dropped sites and how to get back in

[The_Hitcher]

A few words of encouragement in a very dimly lit room.

Yahoo ARE responding to input via their contact email address. After mailing them they were kind enough to let me know that my site had been removed because it was outside their guidelines. Obviously they wouldn't say WHY but I carefully rechecked everything and removed ANYTHING that I thought might be causing a problem. I'm now back in for a re-review at least.

Also, some years ago, a student signed us up to a blasted link farm which caused us numerous problems in Google which after mucho conversations with them we managed to resolve but we still find the blessed things now and then. Anyway, we continue to work on that as well as alert those we find to the drawbacks of such linkfarms.

The main thing is to try and work with Yahoo. Its a difficult transition and they have much to deal with at the moment as we know but there ARE humans the other end and they ARE listening - albeit with a heavy workload. What is said in these forums helps them too. Yes its frustrating but the beast is there, its changed and we have to adapt to that - what helps no one is total negativity.

I'm sure I'll get negative feedback on this but hopefully its a flickering candle for some.

[2_much]

soapy:
"If i read you right at no time did two sites have the same content,"

Nope - they did have the exact same content.

I try to make sure the actual code is 20% different.

I know Google is able to filter out the template and check for the actual text - that also needs to be at least 20% different.

With Yahoo I'm not sure they can filter the template.

[MrOwen]

I have a new site that was ranking in the top ten for the three major keywords in our industry and now it's gone. Who exactly do I contact at Yahoo to discuss this issue? What page on Yahoo has this information? Thanks!

[soapystar]

gone from the index or gone from top ranking?

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[e-mail]

what page on yahoo has all this information? Very good question.

[MrOwen]

Gone from ranking. Thanks!

[Silent_Bob]

How long is it taking to get a reply from yahoo these days? I e-mailed them about a fortnight ago and have heard nothing yet.

[twebdonny]

We received a reply in about 3 days; however, to date, no changes on removal of the penalty have been applied, to the best of our knowledge. Wishing you the best.

Don and Cherie

[MrOwen]

I emailed Yahoo 5 days ago and no word.

[soapystar]

5 days is nothing...dont even think about it for 3 weeks.........

[IITian]

My newly added pages (more than a few hundreds) were crawled at the same time by Google, Yahoo and MSN last week. While, as a result my traffic from Google almost doubled, I still hardly get any hits from Yahoo and MSN from these new pages. (2-3 in last week or so.)

When I check Yahoo using the command site:domain.com I see only a couple of new pages there (same as url command with exact url). When I try out site:http://www.domain.com command, I get almost all the new pages. I wonder if these are Google backfill and Yahoo has discarded its own spired pages or what.

Are there different levels of penalty with my penalty being "yes, we will spider your site once in 3 months (if you want faster indexing we have sitematch) but won't put new pages in the index? (did we tell you about our sitematch program?)" or somthing like that, or is it just delay in showing up in regular index?

[soapystar]

it could well be 3 levels if you think of them as

1: Ink imported or Yahoo editorial lifetime ban.

2: algo filter

3: serp riddled bugs