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I know there have been some massive changes across the Travel section recently, but this is either a mass SERPs clearout or a penalty for moi.
Any one else had similar experiences in the last 48 hours or so?
Or they are having problems with server space and are dropping sites left and right...
In any case, it's not pretty..at all...
A hosting company that I know of lost every single site they were hosting...over 1500...very very very sad, it's a broken company/family.
Sad. Would they and their clients not be in the Google index? Jeeves, MSN? Good luck to them.
My results are freshened as are two blogs associated with them.
blacklist think is simply a joke to me
Better believe it Zeus. I know of 5 different people that all have had the same result of a ban.
However this is where it seems odd:
All of us have had the homepage put back in where we appear in their directory - the other one that doesn't, didn't get the homepage back in!
Slurp still comes through like a dose of salts for all of us, but no pages are returned via serps - this counts for regular MSN search (as obviously using Ink still).
I have over 2,000 real backlinks (built up over 7 years) so there is no other explanation other than a ban.
So whether it is hand-banned, or purely an algo / bot ban that is then placed into a "review" pile who knows. But it is very real.
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With regards to the new beta, yes I have a few thousand pages correctly listed, so when that goes live at least I will get some of the lost traffic back.
Maybe it is broke and maybe all will come back - but depends on just how long it takes for Yahoo to list pages from sites that it has as "new" status.
Any ideas anyone?
There simply does not seem to be any "process" about it, Yahoo just zaps sites that they "feel" don't shape up or as some others have noted (especially in travel) compete with them directly.
Sorry to be so negative about yahoo! but in all the time since Y! search came on the scene I have yet to read a concrete (and credible) post about getting back into the index.
I suppose it would be easier to swallow if the Yahoo results were in some way better than the rest but they just are not (in my experience).
Perhpas spend your time working for MSN, they seem to be the way to go
My site has not appeared on Y search results for 120 days. If I searched for www.mydomain.com, all I got was the sites linking to my DMOZ listing. Now when I do that same search, my homepage comes up first, as it is listed in the Y directory. If I click on "more from this site" I get nothing.
So as far as I am concerned dir listing (or not) has nothing to do with it.
It is curious however that sites that were accepted five years ago quite happily into the directory are now missing asumed lost in action in the SERPS.
As I said above I have still to see or hear anyone making sense of it. A lot of people have been turning it over for a long time now...as far as I am concerned there is no process, no logic, no rules behind it just people..the yahoo! editors and their whims..
I am way past wasting any more time tring to figure it.
