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08-03-2006, 10:50 AM
I know there has been alot of discussion and concerns lately about sites being banned in Yahoo. If you want to see if your site is banned in Yahoo you can check it here http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/ysearch/cgi_urlstatus
Here is a little background on my current Yahoo situation. The website in question is not an e-commerce site and has no affiliate marketing program or anything remotely similar. It is a database driven site that has around 1,000 pages in the healthcare industry. A majority of the site is indexed in both Google and MSN and also ranks very well. After reading lots of threads about people having issues with Yahoo I decided to check on this particular site. Within a few hours I received an email (probably an auto-response) that says “It has been determined that your site may not comply with Yahoo!'s Content Quality Guidelines” So this pretty much confirms that the site is banned from Yahoo. It appears this has been the case since early 2005 as we have received almost no traffic from natural search in Yahoo. Another indication is that when you perform the site: all that is returned is the home page and the site’s Yahoo directory description.
My next steps where to look over Yahoo’s Content Quality Guidelines again which they were so kind to provide a link to in their email. I did some thorough analysis on the site and everything looked fine. So I continued to do some more research on other sites that have been banned from Yahoo and tried to determine what to do next. Even though this went against what I found through my research I decided to submit a url from the site through Yahoo’s Search Submit Express program. Please note that when you submit a url through Yahoo’s Search Submit Express program that it clearly states the url must adhere to Yahoo’s Content Quality Guidelines. So after submitting the url I waited and a couple of days later I checked the account and the url had been APPROVED. I waited a couple more days and this URL now ranks on the 1st page in Yahoo for several of our keyword phrases.
So this raises the question can you buy your way back into Yahoo? According to this scenario you can. The site in question met Yahoo’s Quality Content Guidelines IF we were willing to pay .15 or .30 cents a click.
Here is a little background on my current Yahoo situation. The website in question is not an e-commerce site and has no affiliate marketing program or anything remotely similar. It is a database driven site that has around 1,000 pages in the healthcare industry. A majority of the site is indexed in both Google and MSN and also ranks very well. After reading lots of threads about people having issues with Yahoo I decided to check on this particular site. Within a few hours I received an email (probably an auto-response) that says “It has been determined that your site may not comply with Yahoo!'s Content Quality Guidelines” So this pretty much confirms that the site is banned from Yahoo. It appears this has been the case since early 2005 as we have received almost no traffic from natural search in Yahoo. Another indication is that when you perform the site: all that is returned is the home page and the site’s Yahoo directory description.
My next steps where to look over Yahoo’s Content Quality Guidelines again which they were so kind to provide a link to in their email. I did some thorough analysis on the site and everything looked fine. So I continued to do some more research on other sites that have been banned from Yahoo and tried to determine what to do next. Even though this went against what I found through my research I decided to submit a url from the site through Yahoo’s Search Submit Express program. Please note that when you submit a url through Yahoo’s Search Submit Express program that it clearly states the url must adhere to Yahoo’s Content Quality Guidelines. So after submitting the url I waited and a couple of days later I checked the account and the url had been APPROVED. I waited a couple more days and this URL now ranks on the 1st page in Yahoo for several of our keyword phrases.
So this raises the question can you buy your way back into Yahoo? According to this scenario you can. The site in question met Yahoo’s Quality Content Guidelines IF we were willing to pay .15 or .30 cents a click.