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Outside links:
None that I requested. Only the typical scrapper sites
Links from my other sites:
one-way link from a content off topic site
receipical links from 2 of my on topic content sites
Yahoo info:
~15,000 pages index 4th quarter 2004
All but homepage dropped in Nov 2004
I assumed either dup amazon content or the links from my other sites caused the ban.
My experiment
I had a domain name that matched the sites topic that was not being used.
I banned slurp from the original site and only allowed
slurp on the new one.
I removed adsense, links to my other sites, and fixed the product pages so there would be very little duplicate code to other amazon sites.
I added 1 one-way link from an internal page from 1 of my content sites.
Within a week Yahoo had indexed ~500 pages (including some lower level pages) and was sending traffic.
One week after that (3/31) bamm... the site is gone from yahoo except for the home page.
What percentage are these pages duplicates of any other amazon aff product pages?
Very little actually. A typical amazon datafeed product page will have: product info, editorial review, 5 customer reviews, , similar items, maybe related category links.
I have the product info, editorial review, and my own created set of related products (a lot of them). I also have additional text not on other sites.
When I search on Yahoo for a specific product name that 3 days ago they sent to my site the majority of sites on the 1st results page were the typical Amazon shops with the normal datafeed data.
Duplicate data I would expect to affect the ranking of the site and not cause a ban.
I do not know why my 2 sites were banned can I can say why they were not:
1) Amazon store - Plenty still on the 1st page
2) Adsense - none on the 2nd site
3) Directory, PFI - I've done neither
4) Large number of links - I've never gotten any
5) 302 redirect - New site was indexed and gone in 2 weeks
My guess for the original ban was interlinking between my own sites (3 of them)
I don't know now. I have 1 link from the same Class C and from a domain with the same whois info.
I guess I'll call this experiment done and dump the new domain and let slurp back into the old domain and see if it ever comes back.
