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Reporting questionable sites in the new yahoo index

         

BuoyBoy

1:08 am on Mar 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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There is a competitors site in the new Yahoo directory with 90 doorway pages each with a different keyword phrase in the root directory and all pages redirect to their main site. The doorways of course all have top listings which the main site does not. Google finally gave them the boot but they are all over Yahoo. Does Yahoo care about this stuff at this point. Cant seem to find an appropriate venue to report this.
Have seen other posts where it was recommended not to report but to do the same. Cant see that as a great future building tactic.

Marcia

1:17 am on Mar 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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At the bottom of each page in search is a "Help us Improve" link that will take you here, with the name of the search term appearing in the URL

http://surveys.yahoo.com/projectx_v_3/

androidtech

4:19 am on Mar 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Wouldn't this be costing them a fortune ($300 x 90) in Yahoo Directory listing fees? How did they find *90* categories that match their one site? Seems absurd.

thx

soapystar

7:15 am on Mar 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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dont think he said 90 listings...seems to be saying one site with 90 pages optimised for a keyword and all redirect to the mother site. This one site is in the directory having past a hand check. Each page is top ranked (top listed). I think thats what he said anyway.

Tim

7:30 am on Mar 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Please report spam via this URL:
[add.yahoo.com...]

outland88

8:04 am on Mar 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I'm seeing this with about every keyword in my area. The pharmacy sites and professional spammers are really going wild. The only way I can see making money in Yahoo is to spam or either pay $5000 a year to get visibility.

sem4u

9:16 am on Mar 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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There do seem to be a lot of doorway pages, hidden text and redirects in the current index. Hopefully these can be cleaned up.