About a month ago I lost position from about #11 to no where for www.floridabassfishing.us for keywords florida bass fishing. Some of my pages in the site show up in the top 100, but I can't find the homepage. Google and MSN are good, but what's the deal with Yahoo? Is there some kind of penalty and what causes it? Any help appreciated.
Do you have a link as an affiliate on your homepage? Last year I put one on my homepage and in a couple of days I was gone from Yahoo. I took it away and they came back. It may have been a coincidence, but it's worth looking into. How long have you had that keyword rank? I know something funny is going on right now with that "Yahoo Shuffle"
Got a few affiliates like boatus insurance, eagle boats and of course Google ads. Do you mean I should remove the 1st 2? Not getting any sales from them anyways.
Sometimes, joining new link building programs might damage the websites rankings in Yahoo. Google and MSN seem to be more stable in that respect.
It's worth a try. I know google adwords won't affect it. I know Yahoo has never been fond of affiliates. Last year I had a link on another website of mine selling web hosting. It was an affiliate link where I'd get a commission on each order. About 2 days later I was de-indexed from Yahoo. After a few days of research I removed the affiliate link and in a couple of days I was indexed again.