Domain penalized by Yahoo! ?

[kenny]

Originally Posted by Bill

It's been said that yahoo considers linklists to be link farms, one of the things mentioned in your reply.

Fonz, you should write them and see if you get back the same reply.

Linklists haven't been a good way to get yahoo traffic pretty much from the beginning of their new database and search. Small young linklists can show up for a while but sooner or later as they grow they trip the algorithim and get the boot.

Nobody knows for sure except a few yahoo engineers, but I would bet money that when they started there was a manual list, and that folks like linkster and jay got put on that manual list. But, they added to that an algo that looks for certain behaviors and that algo does most of the work of culling linklists and the like now.

It's the way link lists use recips.

I am sure of it.

[kenny]

yahoo's response:

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Search.

The re-review process takes several weeks to complete. At this time, we
cannot give you specific details why your site has been penalized.
Please check http://search.yahoo.com to see if your site has been
included in the index. You will not be receiving further notification
from Yahoo!.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

Regards,

Dustin

Yahoo! Customer Care
25670106

[kenny]

my final response:

Thank you for your time and quick response.


I don't consider my site a website that merits such a penalty.

I consider this a flaw in how Yahoo handles websites. A flaw that must have a negative impact on how surfers find the content that they are looking for.

I won't hold my breath regarding the re-review process.

Kind Regards,

Kenny


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I apologize for all the posts. I was posting as the messages were being sent/received.

Didn't mean to spam this thread or anything.

I consider the issue with Yahoo a lost cause.

[Fonz]

Originally Posted by sleeper

I apologize for all the posts. I was posting as the messages were being sent/received.

Didn't mean to spam this thread or anything.

I consider the issue with Yahoo a lost cause.

I found your post very useful so no worries

Bill, I will write them and see what they respond. I got a few ideas to make the site less "linkfarmy". I didn't say it'll get me back on Yahoo's 1st page but if you don't try you don't succeed.

[pornhitzman]

I´m going to bump this thread because I have the same problem and would really like to know if there are any news regarding this issue. I´ve been searching back and forth to find someone that got their site reincluded, but I haven´t found anything yet. This is something that affects most LL owners sooner or later and we should try to solve this problem together if that´s possible. I know that hoes, link-o-rama and richardsrealm aren´t banned so there must be some way to get indexed again.