why does yahoo do this??
 

I checked like 10 different link lists and yahoo only wants to index the main page for half of them. Whats up with that?

After researching this issue it seems to be a rampant problem with all kinds of sites and not just adult link lists.

Some kind of penalty I think

Interesting .... can you give me a link to a couple of approved and non approved pages and tell me which r which?

All you have to do is use site:domain.com or site:www.domain.com

You can go through the top 10 link lists and notice half will only have their main page indexed by yahoo - while having many pages indexed by other search engines like google, msn, etc.

You can also check using this thing

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

Here is two quick examples using large well known link lists:

Link-o-rama doesn't seem to be effected by this

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com...&bwmf=a&bwms=p

Penisbot seems to be effected only the main page is indexed

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com...&bwmf=a&bwms=p

Click the inlinks link at top on the penisbot results and it shows 84k+.

Thats not what I' I'm talking about - I'm talking about the fact it only has 1 page indexed.

btw, results for Entire Site and Only This Url in Yahoo Site Explorer are quite different for those domains.
Where's this difference from, if the only 1 page on domain indexed? :D

Alot of LLs are banned in Yahoo. Word has it Yahoo seems to not like directory type sites with tons of links pointing to other domains....and no content.

I wonder what throws the red flag. Since half of them seem to evade the same penalty.

I got sites in there that do fine and sites that have this penalty. All have a bunch of links. Something flags the ban and I can't figure out what it is.

Is this a actual ban? I thought it was just a penalty.

I thought with a ban the site would be removed completely from the index and you would have to contact them to request reinclusion.

I figure this is just some dumb penalty since they are still in the index and being crawled. I thought if the red flags were removed the penalties would be removed automaticly

From what I read, home page only listing in Yahoo for an established domain is a ban, and from what I heard from Jay in Wesday's SE chat a few weeks ago, there's some kind of threshhold that once you reach it, Yahoo will drop you like a rock, permanently. It's unclear what the actual red flags are.

Fortunately this is not a ban. Just penalty due to the some reason related to big reciprocal linking. Yahoo don't like too much reciprocal links.

I know the sites recovered from this state.

You know of sites recovered from the "linklist ban" at yahoo, Kit?

How do you think they accomplished that?

Yes, I know.
One of my sites has been penalized up to the just index page presence in the Yahoos listing and now I found 3 pages in index. I don't know why 2 another pages has bee included last time, but it looks like a small recover.