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Yahoo! tracks click thrus. The theory is that once your site breaks a certain threshold of click thrus it is evaluated by a human. One of the evaluations must be who owns the site. If you have ever had a site penalized in SERPS, any new site being evaluated is going to be fully penalized or receive a demotion penalty.
Many people have gotten 'white hat' sites penalized. If the above theory is true, is prooves that Yahoo! is not too forgiving.
I look forward to comments for others.
It would be a good start if sites reported were at least looked into. I dont think Yahoo are that interested. I have seen zillions of sites in the index just full of black hat pages sub-sub-sub-sub-sub domains. Neither Google or MSN stand for this trick yet Yahoo do. The sites doing this would be rejected from both MSN and Google but they take traffic from Yahoo because they know these techniques work
Three sites i reported that have taken 30% of the Yahoo SERPS index and they still remain weeks later - I can only conclude that this current action is mere window dressing- in the examples i have provided to Yahoo a 5yr old would be able to tell that the sites involved deliver ZERO value to the surfer yet they do nothing about it.
If Yahoo are serious about cleaning up the index they certainly need to get a lot tougher on spam than they are currently thats for sure!
