The most scary thing behind the scene at Yahoo is that some Yahoo employees may be corrupted. That is you give 50 bucks or so to an insider to have a site removed or reincluded. My site fxfisherman.com is listed in Yahoo Directory through a may-be insider. Normally you have to pay directly to yahoo to be listed, but that 3rd-party made a guarantee that paying him at a discounted fee, he will put a site in Yahoo Directory. Transaction: Quantity: 1 Product ID: 4 Product Description: Submit Yahoo Directory ($ 60.00 USD) Total: $ 60.00 USD ( US Dollars ) The order was billed to: Distributed By: ManageSEO Co. ( http://www.manageseo.com )
Are you saying that you can get listed in yahoo directory for $60 given directly to an editor? I am interested...
That's pretty annoying. But I think a physical assault will help you alot. Kick his ass personally...
wow, this is pretty sad....almost as sad as google banning someone when another visitor repeatedly clicks their ads.
It was 48 hours after payment that my site appeared in yahoo directory. I don't know how that guy managed to do that for 60 bucks. If he submitted through the free option, it'd take forever to be listed. Unfortunately I've lost all his contacts. The transaction email states only manageseo.com, and all the PMs in DP have been pruned. The thread @ DP that guy promoted his service is gone too.
Your competitor will likely use the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to try to get you de-listed from Google. Do a search for DMCA and read up on it for your options. It offers protections for both sides. It doesn't sound like DMCA was used with Yahoo, becasue DMCA requires you be notified and given an opportunity to file a counter-claim. Doesn't sound like that happened with you.
Wow I am absolutely stunned that someone would go to such great lengths to get their listing removed. If there was no competition life would be a piece of cake ~ competition is what makes us strive to be better! Oh well - It will all come back to this guy in due course. This is an orderly universe. Gary
I suspect that this is not DMCA, or maybe it is. Several posts back I mentioned that some yahoo employees are corrupted. What ever it is, it must be that guy who did that. There is no other reason behind the ban.
Google requires you physically write them or fax them a signed DCMA complaint, with the proof that it is yours I believe. Least that's what they said when some moron was scraping my RSS for his MFA blog.
Very interesting. I know a site's adsense was removed for supposed "copy right infrigements", but all the articles were user submited so it's an odd situation..
This sounds like the type of thing that Google wouldn't do as abruptly. Yahoo has an ongoing history of not properly planning things correctly, and this story definitely seems to fall in that category.
that is dirty...this is the only other "dirty" method I've heard of that can hurt your rivals besides click fraud. that's scary stuff..
If Yahoo were a great company, Google wouldn't have beaten them this bad. 5% of all searches were from Yahoo, 1% from MSN and 94% from Google. <sarcasm>10 Reasons Why I Love Yahoo</sarcasm> Yahoo is full of bright employees who pay attention on validity of issue. Yahoo management is just superb at planning and organizing. They lead all the times. Yahoo search results are highly relevant. It has 94% market share! You cannot bribe anyone to include your site in Yahoo Directory for 60 bucks. Yahoo do not ban innocent website. Yahoo can tell if it is a misused DMCA. Yahoo submits references of all DMCA cases to chillingeffects.org You can counter a DMCA by sending email to . Yahoo does not help jail any reporter, not to mention any freedom fighter. "If you are not corrupted, at least you can dress like one. Yahooooo!"
I don't think it would be as that. If it is, then Yahoo really needs to look into its policies. If this is the case, anyone cn remobve About.com forom yahoo's index by reporting they are infringing copyright.
Hey report yahoo also they are copying other sites contents... doesn't they violating copyright infringement?
Money laundering. He steals a CC, pays Yahoo and gets $60 from you until the card holder discovers is. At this point the sh*t hits the fan and you might get into trouble. I can only say everyone should stay away from such deals for their own good. I have submitted my sites to the free inclusion a couple of times but no luck. I don't think its worth $299 for me and I won't pay some a$$h. $60 just to get into trouble or be removed (its a subscription anyways, which means you have to re-pay every year, which of course won't happen).
Makes sense. But we are pretty much speculating. Any submitted website hasn't been yet taken down. If there were chargebacks, my site might not be in the Yahoo directory. I'd like to know truth, even i'm risking my site inclusion in yahoo directory talking about this. I wonder if somebody at yahoo who has authority to inspect this transaction could shed some light. If it's due ot CC fraud or whatever, i'd be happy to have my site removed my yahoo directory. By the way, i got contacted by a kind, considerate yahoo employee. Hope he can shed some light on my site ban from yahoo search.