Right now we have a number of sites that were under the Inktomi inclusion, which will be running out here shortly. They are enjoying pretty darn good rankings right now at Yahoo ... and impressively good rankings at MSN. So I do have some concerns about what will transpire over the next several days. We are not going with the SiteMatch program, because it makes absolutely no sense to have to pay for inclusion and a PPC charge on top of that. We are however keeping in the Overture game for the time being.
I for one will be wanting to see the changes that occur after the 15th. The whole reason I brought up the click tracking Url had more to do with the spamming of the Yahoo results, than whether it was a paid inclusion or a SiteMatch result.
The redirect Url that Yahoo had in the link was not the problem. Yahoo's redirect actually was going to the site it was supposed to. It was the actual site itself that was then redirecting to a totally different site -- that was the problem I had. 80% of the top 100 results for "money business" all go to one site. I then tried "home business" and those results were just as bad. On that test, it was split between two sites mostly ... but both sites were on the same Server and are related.
Tim did thank me for the "spam report" though. So I will be watching what measures Yahoo takes on that matter here after the 15th. As it stands right now, those results that I told him about are still sitting there and have not been removed or adjusted in any way.
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