Did I unintentionally trigger a ban

Or does Yahoo just hate Blogger accounts

[hannamyluv]

I have this personal blog. I keep it for fun and postarity really (because heaven knows that it does not make money). It is one of the most visited blogs in its (very small) niche.

It is set up on its own domain but I manage it through Blogger.

Google loves it, MSN loves it. I get lots of traffic from them and they have it fully indexed. Yahoo on the other hand has a whole whopping 3 pages indexed and I don't even come up for the site's name. It looks like a ban.

Now this site has over 9,000 backlinks. Yes, they are legit. I wrote a small quiz that offers a badge when the quiz is complete. A visitor can post the badge on their site or blog and the badge has a link back so others can take the quiz too. It works like a dream and I get a good quarter of my traffic from these badges.

Did I get a Yahoo ban because I am a savvy viral marketer? If so, is there any way to counter balance it. I am certainly not going to turn off the quiz just because Yahoo is having a snit (I probably get more traffic from the quiz than I would Yahoo anyway), but it would be nice to come up at least for my site name.

Or does Yahoo just not like Blogger blogs?

Any thoughts?

[calculator]

Yahoo would probably consider the backlinks excessive and an attempt to manipulate the search engine.

I just got an email from them tonight that my site is under a penalty. They claim too many affiliates, I have two. Too many link exchanges, I have 100, managed with a nice clean PHP script. They call it a link farm. They say I'm cross links and using keyword loading. I use a sophisticated keyword analysis tool that examines my site for excessive keyword density. I have NO crosslinking of other domains. I am using meta tags and they don't like that either.

My Google traffic is 5000 to 10 on Yahoo!

IMHO, they have become useless, so I would not worry about their penalty antics.

[martinibuster]

You have three pages indexed, so it doesn't sound like you're booted from their index.

Questions:
Are all of your links to your home page?

Is there something in common with your inbounds? Are your inbound links predominantly from blogs, sites related to yours, amateur home pages?

[hannamyluv]

I would say about 10% come from other blogs as a blogroll link (interlinking in this niche is pretty common and heavy) and mostly go to the home page with some deep links. The rest all link to the little viral quiz and the majority of them are on blogs. Since the quiz is on a blog, I intended for the quiz to be for people to post the results on their blogs. In short, a good 95% of my links are from other blogs.

While there are 3 pages indexed, when I use site explorer, they only show up as URLs. No titles, no descriptions. It has been this way for months now. It doesn't so much bother me as I am just curious.

I even thought is was a "sitting on the same IP" issue, but some of other sites on that IP are fully indexed.

What the heck did that site do to tick them off? The excessive linkage is all I can figure, but it does sort of bother me that I get penalized for trying to come up with ways not to depend on search engine traffic.