Hand Jobs and Yahoo

[Johnny]

We have a couple of tourism related sites that simply don't come up in Yahoo... never have figured out exactly why.
Rocky Mountain Travel Adventure Vacation Guide Gold Panning and Adventure Vacation Guide! Ski Cabins Campgrounds Hot Springs

both sites have been up for years and have content that is similar but not exactly the same...
any suggestions as to where we are messing up?

We did have a "disgruntled employee" a while back who was our SE "expert" who vowed revenge and then several of our domains dissappeared from Yahoo, of course we have no way to know if that had any connection. This dialogue on "hand jobs and Yahoo" does bring up the problem of what must we do to appease the Yahoo spiders.

[Johnny]

In spite of no representation in Yahoo we continue to grow and actually have quadrupled our traffic over the life of the project which is going into it's 10th year...

funny to look at our statistics and see 10,000 unique visitors every week on each of the domains and only 10 or 12 of them from Yahoo... sometimes I wonder who's missing out, us or them.... ?

[benc007]

Unfortunately, one of my main sites was also hit by Yahoo a couple years ago, and to date I still don't know why and how to resolve this issue.

[glenng]

One of my sites was hit by a hand job by Yahoo. It was due to reciprocal linking between a number of sites that were hosted by the same company. Had to delete all my links, even those not hosted by the company. Still not happy with the results in the SERP's. But I realize other sites may have improved and enhanced the quality of their links, while I had to rebuild the links.

[incrediblehelp]

So did you get back in fully? Did you contact yahoo and if so, did they contact you back?