I wrote a post a few days ago saying Yahoo had banned me. I've looked into things a bit deeper and found that I'm not banned at all. I've done the standard search for URL:http://www.domain.com/ and found my site indexed - WOOHOO! Problem now is that I am nowhere to be found on any kind of search term (all of which I am top 10 elsewhere). I even tried typing in my company name which is completely unique and obviously brings me up top on Google, MSN, etc and on Yahoo I am nowhere to be seen (certainly not top 300 odd anyway). The only way I have managed to get us to appear in the top 100 results is by searching for a specific sentence of about 10 words which is completely unique to my site and does not appear anywhere else in the whole of the WWW and we come up 87th!!! I assume we are therefore being penalized? This is something I have stepped into so have no idea what has been done to get us penalized. All I know is that my site meets all required guidelines and my site has not been involved in any frowned upon SEO techniques for the last year (since I have been here). I know this doesn't help what may have been done before I stepped into this job but my job now is to sort it out. I am by no means an SEO expert so any help is much appreciated. Will I be looked upon more favourably if I give Yahoo a few hundred dollars to be in their directory? I assume their Search Submit is irrelevant as I'm already indexed? I don't want to get involved in advertised listings, just want to be top 10 for my keywords in the organic listings which is where I am everywhere else. If Yahoo doesn't penalize me then I can't see why I wouldn't be there or thereabouts.
As of the above situation, i would suggest you to re-seo your website and wait for sometime and check your listing
Keep getting more links and work at improving your website. You may have received some type of spam penalty or you don't have enough links. Search engines are always changing the algorithm for ranking websites too.
Have you analyzed & compared if Google, Live or Yahoo send more traffic to you in the past (before you were penalized -- if that is true) If you notice that yahoo had sent bulk (i doubt that .. in my case it comes mostly from Google, and so is true for majority of sites, since google is preferred search engine) than it would be wise to make investment and pay a few hundred $$ to Yahoo, however if yahoo was responsible for 10% or less of traffic, then I would suggest to invest in increasing your budget on Google, Live and other SEO efforts instead of wasting it on Yahoo! Thx
It's more a case of we rank top 10 on Google and Live and would like to cover Yahoo as well. In past experience Google sends the most traffic, then Yahoo, then Live. We are happy with the traffic we get from Google and Live but we must be missing out on something not being on Yahoo. We really just want the coverage across the 3 engines and just want Yahoo to look at us without penalisation. We will be happy to pay $299 if they do this. Our SEO work is constant and ethical yet nothing has changed in last 12 months as far as I can see. The only last punt I can think of is the Yahoo Directory but don't know if that's going to be the solution to our Yahoo problems. I know it will be a link which is of general help but it's a $299 link that I will only pay for if it's going to help my Yahoo status.