Banned from Yahoo

ask them
did u use any spame ?

 

When I get new clients and they say they have been banned, I ask them first of course if they did anything from mass emailing to cloaking. If the answer is no, I do my own little "spam scan" for hidden links, text, etc.
If nothing, I follow their outgoing links.
In 80% of the cases that is where the problem is when the first 2 answers were truly "no".

If you link to a banned site or 2, you can yourself lose your indexing. Especially if the site has been banned for link farming, you can become guilty by association quickly.

 

will yahoo allow a site to get back in the serps if it at 1 point was banned. like if you change the complete layout of a site, will yahoo then assume its a new order and in other words give the domain another chance? or is that domain name is just doom?

 

hello sitetutor,

i am in a similar yahoo problem (site dropped after rising to number one).

the site is clean although there are a lot of reciprocal links to check.

what do you use to check all the backlinks?

is there software or a script you use for your initial check or do you do them all by hand?

cheers, ronsard

 

I do it by hand, I click on the links, look at the sites and check if they are indexed at least in Google. I sometimes spam scan them as well for potential dangers down the road.
I would not do link exchange unless you know the webmaster or have a really good feeling about him/her. Here on the forums you can trust that when someone who is knowledgable and has a site similar to yours, it should help to link (boy I hate that word) to one another and of course I would seek out sites that have already some good rankings (don't worry if they put your link on a PR1 page, it is the domain that matters).

Beware when someone emails you out of the blue. Even though I have found a few good network partners this way, 80% of the requests would have hurt me had a gotten myself involved with them.

Hope that helped,

Mike

 

Nice looking site... I get the same thing, too, in Yahoo.... just the homepage.