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my latest reponse:
I'm not going to alter my whole website in a desperate attempt of removing this phantom penalty.
Lets go over your "Content Quality Guidelines"
Pages Yahoo! Wants Included in its Index
1)Original and unique content of genuine value
I have many returning vistors which would indicate that my site includes content which they value.
2)Pages designed primarily for humans, with search engine considerations secondary
My site is easy to navigate and provides descriptive and categorized links to content in which they are looking for. This would explain the high ratio of bookmarkers
3)Hyperlinks intended to help people find interesting, related content, when applicable
The only way I know how to connect webpages is via hyperlink. I build webpages which provide content to retain bookmarkers and to upsell vistors. I'm not in the buisness of building webpages for the sake of building webpages.
4)Metadata (including title and description) that accurately describes the contents of a web page
I don't use metadata
5)Good web design in general
My site design looks better then the sites you have listed when searching for my own site.
What Yahoo! Considers Unwanted
Some, but not all, examples of the more common types of content that Yahoo! does not want include:
1)Pages that harm accuracy, diversity or relevance of search results
My site is as advertised. It's a adult website.
2)Pages dedicated to directing the user to another page
My site features zero redirects. If you mean trying to upsell my visitors for commission then yes I'm guilty. Virtually every webmaster does this. Yahoo does this.
3)Pages that have substantially the same content as other pages
My site provides hand reviewed content split into categories which again spawns bookmarkers.
4)Sites with numerous, unnecessary virtual hostnames
I don't do this.
5)Pages in great quantity, automatically generated or of little value
My pages have value as each one serves it's own purpose. I don't create webpages for the sake of creating webpages. I am not about to elminate my own webpages for the sake of Yahoo.
6)Pages using methods to artificially inflate search engine ranking
If I knew how to do this we wouldn't be having this conversation.
7)The use of text that is hidden from the user
I don't do this. Anybody with half a brain knows this is how you get banned from search engines.
8)Pages that give the search engine different content than what the end-user sees
I don't do this and don't even know how.
9)Excessively cross-linking sites to inflate a site's apparent popularity
I'm not going to stop linking to my own webpages nor am I going to tell other people to stop linking to me. In my buisness we exchange traffic. I'm not going to kill the life blood of my website for Yahoo's sake. Prehaps inflated popularity actually translates to actual popularity.
10)Pages built primarily for the search engines
I build webpages for my surfers.
11)Misuse of competitor names
I don't do this.
12)Multiple sites offering the same content
You already said this in number 3.
13)Sites that use excessive pop-ups, interfering with user navigation
Pages that seem deceptive, fraudulent or provide a poor user experience
My website is popup free. Again, I create webpages to retain bookmarkers.
Now that I have gone over Yahoo's gudelines can you please inform me of the problem?
If not I'll take it as a fault in Yahoo and not of my own site.
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