Yahoo Search Submit Express (Site Match)

Will acceptance remove penalty and restore organic search?

[IT_Jim]

I have a site that had been penalized for some unknown reason ever since before Yahoo started using its own search technology. I don't believe Yahoo ever did a manual review of my site in response to my requests. Recently I subscribed to Search Submit Express (Site Match) to obtain an editorial review of my site and submitted my home page as the URL. About four days later I found most of my site pages in the SERPS and all ranked well. To me this meant Yahoo had reviewed and accepted my site. After a few days I paused my site. Soon after I did this I found that all of my pages had disappeared from the SERPS.

My question is: Now that Yahoo has removed the penalty and accepted my site in Search Submit Express will my site ever show up in the free organic SERPS?

[crobb305]

Sitematch offers you a way into the serps if your site is not "chosen" to be there by the free crawler. Getting accepted into Sitematch doesn't mean your url will suddenly be allowed by the free crawler. You just get accepted into the Sitematch program and pay for your traffic. Pausing the campaign pauses the traffic.

[IT_Jim]

If being accepted by Sitematch doesn't help me to get into the free system where I am wrongly penalized then how can I ever get the penalty removed? I have exhausted all known avenues.

[crobb305]

They have a review-request form. If you don't want to pay for your traffic, then you just won't get any until they remove the free-search penalty. But good luck getting that done. As many here have talked about before, Yahoo bans sites right and left and they have no regard to the true quality the lies within. They just issue bans simply because of the presence of an affiliate link or two.

You were lucky that your Sitematch application got approved. That tells me it was probably not an outright ban that many of us have experienced. If you are "banned", you won't be accepted into Sitematch. I don't think they even look at your site. They just steal the money that you paid for what you expect to be an honest chance at getting into Sitematch. Then they simply tell you that you are rejected AFTER they have your money. If you clean the site up more, and resubmit again, they will once again steal your money and reject the url thanks to their "blacklist" banning procedures.

So, at some point, you just accept the hand that Yahoo dealt you, and move on. There are two very big contenders out there: MSN and Google. Don't flatter Yahoo anymore than you absolutely have to. They aren't worth it and they know it. :)