I don't know if this has been answered yet so... Paying for a Yahoo directory listing WILL NOT help you. I've been in the top 5 organic results for over 3 years. I have only had my paid directory listing for 1 year (expires in 30 days). I dropped from top 5 to *poof* in the organic results... Even though I am ranked #1 in the directory when sorted by popularity. Go figure. Do you link I'll pony up $299 for another year in the directory? Not likely.
To expand on what wrkalot said. I actually got approved for the Directoy AFTER I was banned in the SERPs (about 1 week ago) and it STILL doesn't help you. I think they are two totally different departments and they sent me a automated letter saying that being approved for the Directory does not mean you are automatically in the natural listings nor does it improve your ranking in the natural listings.
Here are my thoughts. COOP links will help you - IF you have enough static links also. If you dont have enough static links, then you will not see much gain. Its that simple. The changing links isnt a problem, its the lack of static links. If they are disproportionate then the SEs smell a problem. Its kinda like having only 4 PR8 links to your site - the SEs expect a certain proportion of links.
Ok, got back up to 4th in Yahoo for my main KW but with a super old cached page (from like a month ago).
I don't know what is going on with Yahoo. I got into their directory about 3 weeks ago and jumped from position 40 to 20 for my homepage. Around the same time purchased some high PR links in an effort to better my standing with Google. When Yahoo credited my BL's I dropped like a rock. My homepage is no where for my keyword phrases in SERPs, but I am in the index b/c they have indexed 44 of my 244 pages. Many of my subpages are indexed and ranked, at least they were until last night. Only thing I can figure is that they have some form of a Sandbox filter in place. Any suggestions anyone?
Please can any body help me that Yahoo deindexing my site,pages are deindexed from 15,000 to 85,and my links are gone from 40k to 5,000 with in a week.There is no position for my top keywords from last 1 month,(Before no.#1 & #2 )for all targetted 30 keywords Further what steps should be taken to regain the position in a SERP?
It's nothing to do with co-op .i have no co-op on my site and just about all my trafic from yahoo has stoped.i'm not placed for any of my keywords any more.
I've lost all but a few pages on 6 sites (combined loss is over 450k). Three are coop and three are not. All on different dedicated hosts with unique IPs and different registrars. A few where pushing the boundaries of aggressive SEO practices and the others where not. I summed it up in this post http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=254013&postcount=8 and got three anonymous (from sissy wimps) reds for expressing my opinion - I'm sure they'll feel the same when it happens to them. Fortunately G and MSN were/are 96% of my traffic so it's not been a financial hit but it bothers me deeply that I can't figure it out. I'm still trying to find the common denominator but other than the ownership I have no clue what's going on (as moulder says "the truth is out there"). I'm still looking. . . -jay
Just to throw some more info on the fire. I have had a site for about a year that has ranked in the 20's-30's for months on the KW I was aiming for. Hosestly I gave up on tracking it. Having checked tonight, I see it is now #10. #9 is a pure ad site (with 3 backlinks in google). #1-8 are reasonable. My site is quality content, barely SEO, maybe 1% affil. links, no link program, no adsense etc.