Site may not comply with "Content Quality Guidelines"

Dropped entirely from top 5, for 6 yrs./Search results

[brklyhary]

If anyone can possibly help me with this, it would be most appreciated. After 6 yrs. of being in the top five for Yahoo Search result, the site completely disappeared about 5 wks. and is no where to be found. According to Yahoo, the "site may not comply with Yahoo!'s Content Quality Guidelines"

Apparently the "more common reasons that a site may violate these guidelines:

- Cloaking (showing crawlers deceptive content about a site)
- Massive domain interlinking- Use of affiliate programs without the
addition of substantial unique content
- Use of reciprocal link programs (aka "link farms")
- Hidden text
- Excessive keyword repetition

I am not a professional but self-taught. If I am violating any guidelines, I couldn't go about finding them if you paid me (Yahoo states that the site “may not”..which doesn’t help either). Does possibly know how, or what I can remove to get back to the search ranks? Many thanks for any assistance that can be provided!

[martinibuster]

Lack of original content may be enough to justify getting booted out of their index.

Good luck.

[brklyhary]

Sorry for the dumb question here, but what exactly is meant by "original content"? That can cover a lot of areas, is there any way you can be more specific?

Many thanks.

[ConnieS]

Have you written your own content, or is the content simply copied from another source with a few minor changes?

[brklyhary]

Nope, it's all mine and again it has been valid for 6 yrs. to the point that it never really wavered from the top 5 (always in the top 7). I have the title of the page in the title of each page (and there are a lot of pages).

Also, I'm wondering if another culprit is the fact that if there is a new publication worth noting (regaring the subject matter, of course) I will add it to the index/home page,with a little blurb about it as well (this, in addition to the Updates page). Could this be hampering the search crawl, by any chance? There is NO link added to these circulating additions, only an image and the aformentioned blurb.

Again, many thanks for any help you can provide.