Banned from Search, but have been a Category Sponsor 5 years

They emailing me wanting more money. LOL

[crobb305]

Well, my credit card expired, so The Yahoo Directory emails me wanting my new Credit Card Number. After I have sponsored one of their categories for 5 years (thats at least $6000, at $100 a month). Yet, the search team "banned" my site because it had an affiliate link. Oh no! How horrible!

Well, the affiliate links are gone, nevertheless. Yet, they ignore my requests for reinclusion, and steal my money when they reject me for Search Submit. You think I am giving them my new credit card number? Not a chance.

Yet another pissed off webmaster pulling money from Yahoo, just like stock holders.

[crobb305]

It is hard to understand given that you can duplicate the very same site and get back in with no trouble at all.

Well after 5 years, the site(s) have so many incoming links to them. By starting a new site, you are staring all over. They want the "linking" system to represent a "democratic vote" for a site, yet a single, untrained and narrow-minded editor unfairly "bans" the contestant (in a way that is analogous to a political assassination). The searchers/"users" no longer get to decide on the site's quality.

Yahoo is consistently contradicting itself, creating double standards, and continuing on with business as usual (which probably won't get them too much farther).

By the way, as I have said before, if your site is blacklisted, you are wasting your money when you submit your site to Search Submit. They do NOT tell you that your site will NOT receive a review. If it is "banned" on the "blacklist" it will not be reviewed and they will steal your money. You clean up your site more, then pay again, unknowing that your site's fate has already been determined. The last time I resubmitted (in hopes of getting a fair review), they had it rejected within 45 minutes of receiving my credit card payment! They never even looked at my site. Further, over a one-year period, I paid for 5 reviews, all rejected (before I learned about the blacklist at Pubcon '05)

I think this deception could be grounds for a real lawsuit. Yeah, yeah, we have all heard stuff like this before, but I am just venting. All it would take are some willing people. It would not be the proverbial "my site was unfairly banned" lawsuit, but rather a claim that you have been deceived as a consumer. That is just food for thought, though I doubt the investors will take lightly to something of this nature.

Someone needs to write a book about all of Yahoo's deception, as perceived by the typical webmaster/advertiser and distribute to the shareholders. In your book or memo to the shareholders, you could discuss their customer service, some of the points raised in this tread, and how they have no creative mind; they are always 2 steps behind Google releasing similar products. They are a "business" with a concept and philosophy incapable and unworthy of winning on Wall Street.

C

[edited by: crobb305 at 3:18 pm (utc) on Aug. 12, 2006]

[superclown2]

There are lots of things I don't understand about Y :)

[soapystar]

crobb...at the pubcon did they explain how it was possible to overcome the blacklist in the early days but not now? In other words we know given certain favourable circumstances you will get your site unbanned but not with a straight review request. Well im sure someone will chip in with an example of an unbanned site with a simple request. However they are so rare as to be exceptions. And if its an exception then the rule is proven. And thats assuming they were truly banned to start with.