What Yahoo! Considers Unwanted

What do they mean by this:

[herb]

"examples of the more common types of pages that Yahoo! does not want include"

Sites with numerous, unnecessary virtual hostnames

Do they mean:

1) Virtual domains sharing a single IP
2) Similar sites on a single server
3) Sub-domains (redwidgets.widgets.com)
4) Key word loaded domain names
5) Redirects
6)?

The Situation:

Have a UNIX box with about 4 V-domains sharing a single IP that all were bounced on the same day. They were 3-5 years old and did nicely in the listings. Ranged from 20-50 pages in static HTML. No cross linking to each other involved, they all stood on thier own merits and inbound links. Two of them were in the core database of ink or whatever we used to call it. They WERE all on the same product/topic, but substantially different content and design style. All were listed for inclusion with PT until they expired some time last year. This situation occurred about 90 days ago. Slurp still spiders them but except for press releases and articles from other sites they don’t exist as far as Y (and by extension MSN) is concerned when you search by the domain name.

I'm guilty of 1 and 2 and in one case 4 but I'm leaning toward the pay-for-inclusion syndrome catching up with us. Think we may have given them too good of a road map

Yes I understand that it could be other forces at work. Not complaining, just trying to understand. I have taken my lumps and want to move on without making the same mistake,

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basics-18.html

[oldskool79]

They do not mean virtual domains sharing a single IP. This is a common (and recommended) method of hosting multiples sites on the same IP. No search engine will penalize for this.

I think they mean two things with this statement:

1. Don't set up multiple domains pointing to the same site (i.e. buy-low-priced-widgets-here.com and buy-cheap-widgets-now.com etc...all pointing to the same site.

2. Don't set up keyword1.mydomain.com, keyword2.mydomain.com etc. if it is unnecessary.

[mastervisa]

Same thing happened to me about 90 days ago. Was paying PT to be submitted. When I was told the service was being discontinued back in May, I was also told to switch to Overture Sitmeatch. I didn't and all the domains I had listed with PT were dropped from Y 90 days ago when my last PT subscription ended. The ones I didn't have with PT, are still there. Slurp still comes, but leaves without doing anything on my dropped sites.

[bobothecat]

Could likely be a case of a.blah.com, b.blah.com, c.blah.com, etc... This is an easy way to spam the engines, and also an easy way to get caught. Not saying this is what you did exactly, but from what you posted - it sounds like it.

Two of them were in the core database of ink or whatever we used to call it.

This would be "BOW" - Best of Web.

Mastervisa wrote:
Same thing happened to me about 90 days ago. Was paying PT to be submitted. When I was told the service was being discontinued back in May, I was also told to switch to Overture Sitmeatch. I didn't and all the domains I had listed with PT were dropped from Y 90 days ago when my last PT subscription ended.

I doubt this has anything to do with it... I used to spend over $20k a year with Ink - haven't renewed, or spent a penny with Yahoo, and none of my listings have been dropped.

Added: If anything, my listings have gotten better. Many #1 or #2 positions for valued keywords - not paying a dime for.