I will have to disagree with you regarding most threads being yahoo biased, this isn’t the case at all. Most webmasters know that neither Yahoo nor any other search engine owes them anything. If you want to be listed high up on a search engine then you need unique content, pages that are primarily for humans not search engines. Your hyperlinks should be intended to help people find interesting and relevant content and should not be aimed at search engines.
If you stuff a web page full of keywords you’re spamming and as such will be penalised. Once your web site gains a high listing you need to continue to add unique content that is of value to your visitors, if you just sit back and do nothing while other webmasters continue to improve their sites then your site is going to drop. Sometimes a drop in your rankings is not a result of something you’ve done, it’s possibly due to your competition improving their rankings.
If you feel a SE is taking up excessive bandwidth then use your robots text to prevent them from visiting as often or to restrict them to certain pages. You have to understand that Search Engines offer a service and that they are there to help those looking for information, they are not there for webmasters. In other words the best thing you can do is produce a web site that offers great content that is different from your competitors, give people a reason to keep coming back and then you should see an improvement in your rankings.
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