Dropped from Yahoo!

[achronister]

I got kicked from Yahoo over the weekend and I have no idea why. site: command pulls lots of pages, none that are cached, and inurl: command pulls only 17 pages, none are mine. Last week we had over 18000 pages indexed with both those.

Anyone have any ideas why I may have been dropped?

[jackson992]

Yes I am seeing the same thing. Down by 500 visaitors since Saturday. I did a site:jacksretail.com and the pages still show up but no ranking can be found

[achronister]

I spoke to my Overture rep who seems to think it is due to Yahoo dropping Inkomi and moving completely to SiteMatch. I only had 30-40 url's in Inktomi so I don't know why we lost all of it, but know I'm going to have to pay for SiteMatch. If so, Nice play by Yahoo in forcing me to spend more money.

[Mel]

Yahoo moved away from Inktomi a couple of months ago, and has been using its own database since then. SiteMatch listings are less than 1% of that database so it appears that your SiteMatch rep may be confused or perhaps commercially motivated.

You DO NOT have to pay for SiteMatch to be included in the Yahoo database, and if you have been dropped for another reason (Yahoo has recently dropped many pages) paying for SiteMatch will not help.

[jackson992]

Here's an interesting discovery for the site that was dropped:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=sl...+Gown+Ensemble

The site is http://jacksretail.com/clothing.shtml


Now if I do the following search it shows up:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Kyl...=20&fl=0&x=wrt

[achronister]

Regardless of when they switched, there is no reason why we would be dropped. If they are dropping pages then I doubt they would have dropped all 25,000 pages they had.

If you can find anything resembling spam let me know, but there won't be any. The only possibility was duplicate pages due to the dyanamic portions of the site, but that still wouldn't get the entire site banned.

[jackson992]

*bump*

[Gary Golden]

Do you type:
link:www.mysite.com
or:
link: www.mysite.com

Why on some sites are these numbers the same while on others the top is higher than the bottom.
Again with other sites the bottom is higher than the top.

Are both ways relevant on checking links?
Or again is this simply up to the individuals?

I understand that the automated systems only use the top form:
link:www.mysite.com

to check links.

Just wandering!

[rocky1]

achronister,

Try @:www.tickets4u.com

That one turned almost 9400 results for you although most appear linkbacks, at least on the first page or two.
Second run showed 11,000!

allinurl:www.tickets4u.com

Turned what I presume is the homepage and one other. Have you checked to see if that page is current or something from the past? Site I'm working has been revised for couple of weeks now, Yahoo had the new page in cache 3 different times, but reverted back to the old page each time, for some reason!

[Mel]

Achronister:

Searching for your site pages in Yahoo with the syntax site:http://www.tickets4u.com returns 13,300 of your pages in the Yahoo index.

link:http://www.tickets4u.com returns 16,200 pages linking to yours.

So you still have pages in the index and links but you are not ranking for selected keywords?

[jackson992]

That is exactly what is happening to both of us

[achronister]

my pages are still in the index, they just are not showing in the SERP's.

I went from 25000 referrals from Yahoo the first 3 weeks of last month, to none. The only traffic I'm getting from them now is from overture.

I'm fairly sure we've been banned, I just don't have any idea why.

[jackson992]

Yes achonister I am seeing the same thing. Pages still show up if I do a site:jacksretail.com yet searches turn up nothing not even on the last page.
I did find out one of the links to my site was one of those redirect/jump links. Is it possible this is what's causing it? There seems to be a lot of talk about this over at WMW