Crosslinking Parameters

[textex]

I was under the impression that linking sites together was good if it was good for the user.

I have two sites that were recently booted from Yahoo!. Yahoo! comes for the robots.txt and leaves.

These site are squeaky clean. The only possible reason for the penalty was that they are linked to each other.

Yahoo! editorial needs to relax. It seems as though they are inexperienced and are not clear as to what is spam and what is not.

I see tons of cookie cutter doorways and networks of linked sites doing well.

What's the deal?
What can I do?

[textex]

C'mon Yahoo! Tim or Mike. Chime in.

[Marcia]

>>leaves

First thing run your robots.txt through a validator to make sure you're not sending them away

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[cabbagehead]

Seriously - Yahoo Mike and Tim - It seems painfully clear based upon my own experience and the experiences of others that I've read on this forum, that yahoo has slapped some substantial penalties on a significant number of sites that don't deserve it. This clearly needs to be addressed internally at Yahoo and hopefully for your own quality sake, it is. Can you please let us know what is being done to address this issue and what timetables may apply? Some of us have anxious clients we must answer to, and these undeserved penalties are making some of us look really bad. :-\

[Webresultz]

We host a number of sites and it seems Yahoo is banning by IP, so if your hosting on a sever that just uses one Ip and someone else on that server gets toasted it looks like everyone gets it. Sort of like an antiquated Google banning. No doubt they will sort this out eventually as many people host on virtual servers.

[2_much]

Yes on the banning by IP, yes on the banning per server, and yes on the issue of penalties. Yahoo is being overcautious with spam.

However, once you figure out what's okay with crosslinking and optimizing, the traffic is great - highly qualified (they are buyers).

I have set up a network of sites where there is very little interlinkage between them. Group 1 links to Group 2. Group 1 links randomly to each other, utilizing internal pages. So basically, there is no reciprocal linkage. This is working very well for us.

[textex]

My sites are just two sites linked together. Different IPs, same server. VERY clean sites.

One site sells widgets. The other site sells cogs. Obviously these are just examples but it absolutley makes sense for the user to have these sites linked together. In fact, I would not even consider unlinking them.

What's there to figure out about optimization for Yahoo!? Their manual reviews are highly biased. What is good for one site is not good for others.

[skibum]

So far its worked well to avoid the manual reviews, no site match, no free submit, just let Y! pick up the sites.

[textex]

"So far its worked well to avoid the manual reviews, no site match, no free submit, just let Y! pick up the sites.
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These sites were listed in INK for years via fee submit.

I am seeing my competitors go down as well. We have a real balck hat in the industry. I would bet he is doing something or reporting us to Yahoo! for something.