banned from yahoo or what?

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by just_me, Oct 31, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hi all,
    I'm new on this forum :D. I have a site that has around 10000 pages indexed by yahoo but I don't appear in the results. I say around 10000 pages because the pages are fluctuating a lot from 5000 to 15000. About 3 months ago I was getting from yahoo 500 unique users per day, @ 7000 pages indexed. Has anyone got the same problem? I need to know if I’m banned from yahoo or what? I need an advice.

    Thanks!
     
    just_me, Oct 31, 2005 IP
  2. netaddict

    netaddict Peon

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  3. Barre Tire

    Barre Tire Peon

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    #3
    I am having the same problem ...
     
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  4. just_me

    just_me Peon

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    #4
    It is a lyrics site. I make updates at 2 -3 days. I was in the results 3 months ago but now nothing, not even one user per week. I was thinking to try resubmit my site again but i don,t know if this is a good ideea.
     
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  5. ferret77

    ferret77 Heretic

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    #5
    yahoo takes forever to deep index a site and send traffic to subpages

    first it indexes them, then after a long while they actually start appearing in the serps
     
    ferret77, Oct 31, 2005 IP
  6. Web Gazelle

    Web Gazelle Well-Known Member

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    #6
    Your not banned if you have that many pages indexed.
     
    Web Gazelle, Oct 31, 2005 IP
  7. farnastic

    farnastic Active Member

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    #7
    It's happening to me also.
    My site has been listed in the first 10 in Yahoo for about 3 months. After 3 weeks it dissapear even in the 901-1000 page results.

    Here is the log from Yahoo robot in my site this month. As I see, it comes to my site every day.

    Inktomi Slurp 21454+1042 147.33 MB 31 Oct 2005 - 13:38

    My question is this: When Yahoo comes to my site, is it indexing?
    If I type www.mydomain.com in Y search, I get abnout 40,000 results.

    thanks
    far
     
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  8. Web Gazelle

    Web Gazelle Well-Known Member

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    #8
    You need to type site: then your site name That will give you the pages indexed by Yahoo.
     
    Web Gazelle, Nov 1, 2005 IP
  9. tfbpa

    tfbpa The....Alive

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    #9
    It's very good possible that a site is indexed and penalized.

    The homepage is normally cached and all other pages do not have correct title tag and no description.

    You can always ask yahoo, they will tell you if a site is penalized or not. But don't expect any reaction after that...

    http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/ysearch/cgi_urlstatus
     
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  10. bloodwrath

    bloodwrath Active Member

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    #10
    im in the same boat
    lots of index pages
    but no traffic
    if resubmitted my site
    asked them to checkout my site..
    nothing
    ive redid my whole site.. added many value added feature
    still no yahoo traffic...
    and with google/jaggar
    im wondering WTF im doing in the web business or what im going to do.
     
    bloodwrath, Nov 3, 2005 IP
  11. freeman

    freeman Active Member

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    #11
    try to change the server/site ip(maybe your site ip have a bad history with yahoo)
     
    freeman, Nov 4, 2005 IP
  12. ferret77

    ferret77 Heretic

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    #12
    I don't think SE pernalize things based on ip too much
     
    ferret77, Nov 4, 2005 IP
  13. bloodwrath

    bloodwrath Active Member

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    #13
    I was wondering that as well
    as around the same time as the march yahoo update
    I also switched hosts..
     
    bloodwrath, Nov 4, 2005 IP
  14. bloodwrath

    bloodwrath Active Member

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    #14
    im out of luck with yahoo

    Dear Site Match Customer,

    Unfortunately, URL(s) you recently submitted to the Site Match program did
    not meet the Content Quality Guidelines for the program and therefore cannot
    be accepted. A list of these URL(s) is included at the end of this message.

    Common reasons that URLs do not qualify for Site Match include:
    - Cloaking (showing crawlers deceptive content about a site)
    - Large-scale domain interlinking
    - Use of affiliate programs without the addition of substantial unique content
    - Use of reciprocal link programs (aka "link farms")
    - Hidden text
    - Excessive keyword repetition

    For guidance on how to improve your web pages, you may wish to consult with
    one of the following authorized Site Match resellers:

    Ineedhits - http://www.ineedhits.com/
    Infospider - http://www.infospider.com/
    Marketleap - http://www.marketleap.com/services/default.htm
    Position Technologies - http://www.positiontech.com
    Trellian - http://www.prioritysubmit.com/sitematch.htm
     
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  15. my3cents

    my3cents Peon

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    Has anyone gotten out of the Yahoo penalty? My site was penalized (pretty much dropped from serps) sometime in June. Since then I've done lots of revisions to my site to clean it up. I had some old doorway pages from years ago, etc. It's now been 4 months since I cleaned house. I've emailed them about 5 times, never once getting a response.

    Funny part, they accepted my site into YPN of course...

    Just curious if anyone had luck getting back in... any advice appreciated...
     
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  16. Elee

    Elee Well-Known Member

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    #16
    Maybe Yahoo doesn't penalized based on IP numbers, BUT it happened to me!!
     
    Elee, Nov 6, 2005 IP
  17. ferret77

    ferret77 Heretic

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    well if you are on a shared hosting account then their is probably a lot fo other website with the same ip , are they penalized too?
     
    ferret77, Nov 6, 2005 IP
  18. Takshaka

    Takshaka Peon

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    #18
    Whilst investigating why I was unable to access one of my own sites via my ISP (I could access it via a proxy) I came across an interesting article about a website whose IP was being blocked by Yahoo's ISP's blacklist.

    I can't remember the full details but it's certainly possible and I'm hoping that the same has been happening to me. I was getting great traffic at the start of the year and then it suddenly dried up and only my homepage is indexed yet Slurp is the most frequent and bandwidth hungry bot on that site (one of the symptoms of the website in the article I refer to was that Slurp was attempting to spider regularly).

    I switched my IP address from shared to dedicated the other day (which fixed my access problem) so I'm waiting with baited breath to see if Yahoo re-indexes the rest of the site and starts sending me traffic again.
     
    Takshaka, Nov 10, 2005 IP
  19. Takshaka

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    Elee - have you got the site re-indexed? How long did it take and what did you do?

    Thanks
     
    Takshaka, Nov 10, 2005 IP