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- Started advertising on Overture 8 months ago.
- I am good at search engine ranking of multiple keywords for a single page.
- "Service-A" was ranked in the top 5 for 6 main keywords of the service.
- My "Service-A" prices are the lowest in the market and provides a high quality service.
- I became the market dominator within 3 months among 7 other competitors – I achieved about 40% of the clients/market share of this niche, service related consumer market.
- I was able to spend lot of money on Overture, added more keywords and bided high & low depending on the competition.
- I was bidding for the top 3 positions for the 6 main keywords.
- 2 of the above keywords interests Yahoo! as well, because they have sub-business units providing different services connected to those 2 keywords.
- Yahoo! affiliated sub-business units started showing up their ads and over-bided my ad positions.
- Time to time I was aggressively over-bidding them, they actually didn't provide the service for those keywords, but they wanted the traffic because that targeted traffic/user's might have an interest in their services too.
- 2 of the medium priced competitors stopped advertising and switched to other methods because they could not afford the Overture bidding. They couldn't get customers, because most of them came to me.
- Suddenly, my "www.*******.com/Service-A" was removed from the normal search results. It appears in the directory search results only. I lost about 45% traffic for 6 main keywords.
- Now I am in great trouble!
I HAVE LOT OF DOUBTS
1) Who has done this?
(Yahoo! OR a competitor influenced a Yahoo! Employee to do so underhand OR an affiliated Yahoo! Sub-business unit influenced Yahoo! to do so)
2) Is this ethical OR is this legal for them to do?
(Why did they remove the page completely; instead of putting it in the bottom 200 results?)
3) All the other competitors are among the top 10 search results and my site is not there or anywhere. Is this is a fair thing to do? How come Yahoo! has the right to control the market I operate in?
4) Is this going to be a temporary action or for life-time?
5) What to do now?
Who is responsible for this? Who to contact? (Yahoo! Or Overture)
Is there any benefit contacting regarding this?
6) The whole point of paying and putting in the Yahoo! Directory is to provide visibility to my site in the Yahoo! search results and directory results. Now my site is no where in the ordinary search results.
How can I get my page back in the search results?
Please contribute any ideas to help me out.
Thank you for your time!
TinyPower
