Spam the Hades Out of Yahoo

[JamesR]

On one serp (15 results), 4 listings are from the same company, 3 from the same domain. WHOIS lookup easily matches the sites, design does also. Yahoo does not do WHOIS lookups aparently.

How did this company pull it off? The domains are directories with different software products that they affiliate with, passing them off as their own, each having its own listing in the directory. On the bottom of each of these pages, they have a line like (Software Product A Inc.), on the next product page (Software Product B Inc.), spoofing the editors to believe they are the developers.

Shows that the editors do very cursory checks and then admit the content. Hopefully they will figure out how lax their spam checks are. Until then, there is a gaping hole to allow multiple pages from the same site. Any more examples of prolific spam in Yahoo? (no urls please, only methods being used to get in)

[Brett_Tabke]

Cash talks. I've never had a paid listing get dropped out of yahoo. One former client has 19 sites in the same category.

[oilman]

>>cash talks

yup - never been turned down either. Been kicked to the bottom of the pile for no reason but never rejected.

[eljefe3]

>>yup - never been turned down either

A client of mine got rejected due to the fact the the URL was too long and Netscape couldn't handle it. After a long wait on the phone to yahoo, all got cleared up and the sites were in. At $299 a pop, I don't think they want to turn down anyone.

[markd]

Presumably, even if 'cash talks', if your site contains a Java/graphic nav, or uses features not backward compatible with v.4 browers it will still be rejected!

Some things will never change! :)