Has Yahoo messed up?

It's weird, I'm not saying that it has anything to do with co-op but two of my sites which were doing wonders in Yahoo before and after I placed co-op on them have totally dropped.

One site which I was using for weight is gone, and another site which I was sending all of my weight to is gone.

Is anyone else seeing this? people who are not on co-op??

 

I have about 6000 weight pointing to the same site (10 different pages).

 

If this is any indication, there is no "site dropping out of Yahoo" discussion at the LV forum.. or other SEO forums?

 

I wonder if this could have something to do with the ad network weight caps getting removed. Maybe this caused a large jump in links which tripped a filter? I don't know but I'm going to turn down the weight I'm pointing to one of my sites that got removed and see if that helps.

When I first joined the ad network I put a whole bunch of weight to one site, this site got removed from yahoos results. I then lessened the weight and a month later the site came back.

Now I don't know for sure that the problem was that but I didn't change anything else on the site other then the amount of weight.

 

Yahoo! is doing this for the publicity. They probably created the perception of a problem to get people taking about them to build demand.

Before it was, my Y is good, end of story. Then it was followed by pages about G.

They want to create a BUZZ I bet.

 

This same discussion appears on every seo forum I visit

Do people actually post on the LV forum?

 

Which SEO forums? I'm not a SEO, so I don't get around to many other SEO forums.

 

The yahoo issue is not an issue of the co-op. A lot of webmasters are seeing this happen who are not in the co-op. We simply need to wait it out.

 

It may not be an issue of coop, but it has surely a lot to do with significant amount of links pointing to a site.
The only sites I see dropped are ones which had link building campaigns. The lamer sites are still there and looks as if they are there to stay for good.

 

Do a Yahoo search for your kw's from a seperate location.

It appears after you search a term several times on a single computer, Yahoo starts feeding you different results than a computer searching for the first time.

 

Exactly the same with me. I have a few more sites that I am applying the same concept to, same result. Every once in a while I'll surface in the top ten only to disappear again.

 

Must be the "Yahooligans intruders" causing this troubles

Seriously, there are thousands of sites affected which dropped into nowhere and mostly junk appears on top instead. If Yahoo doesn't act on this matter they will face a drop of their good image they once had.

 

What about Yahoo? Did they come up with any explainations? I haven't found or heard about that yet.

Besides all the rumours, I'm not talking on my behalf, there are many web businesses thrown out of the rankings like thrash and left alone, losing remarkable amounts of business revenue, only to be exchanged for real thrash up now. I'm not saying its all bad on the top, but as a matter of fact too many sites are bad and this will searchers make run away in no time.

Even web site owners paying a hefty price in hard currencies for yahoo directory listings disappeared.

For Yahoo to stay silent to this matter is not a good choice to take, and this will give people impressions of Y's guilt for this mess created. Perhaps some will consider lawsuits about that too.

When I lost my rankings in Google, I checked the guidelines, found out that a linkpartner has changed its content to pornography that has triggered filters due to the fact that I'm using safe search on my site among other little problems. After clearing the problems on my site it's back on top again.

Are there guidelines from Yahoo? Useful ones? - Remains to be seen.

As for now
Yahoo, you'd better explain and give useful guidelines if you want to continue as major player in this business -

Websitse listed are not "guinea-pigs" for testing, to much money is already involved and invested by businesses which dropped without warnings.

 

Looks like they acted on this case. It's no more there at least.
Others see improvements in other cases too?

 

I saw some improvements yesterday afternoon on one of my sites - most of the SERPs returned to pre-saturday positions. I checked this morning and about half of the kws are gone again.

The other sites are still completely awol.

 

on another site someone has said that paying for site match got them re listed almost immediatly

http://forums.seochat.com/t33751/s.html

 

Thanks for this ferret77, they make some good points up there. Just finished reading it.

 

No, - was to early, it's back again.

Just checked the first 30 sites under these keywords. None with adsense only one with adlinks on it. It's not like yesterday, when I saw quite a few with adsense on it.

 

Seems like everthing with Yahoo is Beta but not Better

Yahoo! Search Launches Search Subscriptions Beta, Providing
Select Deep Web Content to Users; Yahoo! Becomes First Major Search Engine to Enable Users to Search Their Personal Subscription Content

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=YHOO:US&sid=a6FDzy4rWvKs

full article

 

Used to rank nr3, 7 and 19 with keywords from one of my pages, and that was not in the coop, however i have resently done a linkbuilding to that page, and has rapidly encreased links to that page.

Now i am totaly out of Yahoo.