Is there a Yahoo Re-Inclusion Sandbox?

[jaffstar]

I have an authority site that was excluded from Yahoo. After a lengthy process, the site is back in Yahoo, but does not rank top 1000 for anything. It does well in the other big engines.

The site is an authority site with 30K inbound links.

Could it be that this site is now sandboxed?

Has anyone been re-included, but sandboxed?

[crobb305]

jaffstar,

How are your internal pages indexed (site: search)?

I see some sites that have internal pages indexed url only, none of which rank for any terms. I am trying to figure out what this means.

[jaffstar]

How are your internal pages indexed (site: search)?

Used to be only the homepage, which indicated a penalty. Now I have 1000 +

[randle]

You can be penalized in Yahoo and still get a lot of pages to return using the site: command. If you run the site: command, the first return should be your home page, looking just fine with title, snippet, file size, and the word “cached”.

After that, if every other page listed just displays the title and url, your most likely looking at a penalized site. Often penalized sites will only return the home page using the site command, but you can also get a lot of other pages returned just showing title and url. There will also not be the word “cached”, following the url.

The key thing missing is the snippet on all the pages displayed after the home page. That’s a tip off right there. If you really want to know if your site is penalized, just ask; [add.yahoo.com...]

What’s up with the penalties? We would need to hear from the folks at Yahoo on that, but there not talking about it on their blogs, and they don’t post around here much so were all left to just sort of sit and wonder about it.

[marty98]

I tried the mysite: command and I found mostly bs links to my site from sites with domain names like 2403.wef5b5.info. My site also was penalized for an unknown reason with only the index page in the yahoo index but for a week the index re appeared, even if lowly ranked, only to disappear again. Could these links, which are sites linking to us without permission, cause a penalty for link farming?

[marketingmagic]

Does anyone know how to actually get Yahoo to remove sites that are spamming you? There are a number of sites in their index that are using our company name and products in their title and description and machine generating the pages in what i believe is an attempt at sabotaging our rankings in all the engines.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with this?