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Now I seem to have been forgiven and my pages' results seem to be simular to results in MSN and Google. Nice to be in the top 10 again on most topics.
It does look to me like key words in the title makes a big difference for example "ing" brings different results than the "s" and that from the singular.
That way, you'll keep your position, and everyone can still get to your page.
Did they leave a contact address btw? I wouldn't mind having my site 'hacked' by them as well. I could use a boost in ranking.
I guess there plan is working to increase visitors to there site with inferior results. maybe if they can improve there results back to 1 tear ago visitors will come back. Rocket Science... Dah!
I can only conclude they work on the basis of mixing results on a regular basis in the hope that more webmasters buy ppc from them - its a policy thats obviously not working for them.
Looking at a number of sites we work on, some rank great in Yahoo for a quarter, then drop back a quarter, vanish a quarter, rank top 3 for almost everything and so on.
Its almost like they tweak say the density knob, one quarter high density, in title, in url, in anchor ranks top, next quarter its low density, in title, not in url, next quarter its some other mix and so on... this way no one site can rank well in Yahoo on a continual basis all year round for more than its primary keywords.
It would be nice to see some quality and stability from them.
"Looking at a number of sites we work on, some rank great in Yahoo for a quarter, then drop back a quarter, vanish a quarter, rank top 3 for almost everything and so on."
My results for several of my sites mirror this activity. My main site has been anywhere from 4th to not in the top 1,000 over the last 10 months for our main phrase with minimal changes to the actual site beyond normal updating and content additions. Google ranking has been a steady climb but both Y! and MSN have been jumping around like a bubble bee in a shoe box.
Investors dumped shares in Yahoo (YHOO) on Sept. 19 after the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Internet company warned of slowing online advertising growth in recent weeks.
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I guess there plan is working to increase visitors to there site with inferior results. maybe if they can improve there results back to 1 tear ago visitors will come back. Rocket Science... Dah!
I agree. They have made their own bed, so-to-speak. They have been treating some of us pretty poorly, and provide some pretty bad search results. With their site-banning philosophy, poor customer service, and increasingly inferior search results, they have to face the consequences.
I sent them example of the bad results, re-directs and other misc.
They said yes it looks off but its only for that search, I compared it to canada results which are great and they say its the same results but different. Go figure
Their arrogance may be their downfall. They need a management and philosophy overhaul. Stockholders should demand it.
Recently they have dumped them due to a) poor reporting issues, poor clarity over click throughs b) poor staff responce times and c) lack of support - they now partner with Google and enjoy a much better relationship and reporting feedback.
Three weeks on from this and no one at Yahoo, even the appointed account manager has phoned the client or noticed the business is no longer partnering with them - thats how much they are on the ball!. A $300,000 account walks out the door and no one has noticed - amazing!.
