I was completely dropped by Yahoo! and others!

[fabrizio]

Hello here,
I have a very popular music website (http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com) and was very well indexed in all the major search engines (I am 6 as Google page rank) until one week ago... as today seems that it has been completely dropped by the Yahoo! index, and consequently from any Inktomi related SE like HotBot, AllTheWeb and also MSN.com (I am not sure if it uses Inktomi as index base).

Any idea? Anyone had my same experience?

Thank you in advance for any advice you may give me.

Sincerely,
Fab.

[seobook]

your site is still in Yahoo!
http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=fp-pull-web-t&p=www.virtualsheetmusic.com%2F
and the sites that I have known to have recently been penalized via editorial review have not shown up for queries, but your site does
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22our+entire+catalog.+Be+sure+to+conside r+becoming+a+Member+and+download+everything%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-pull-web-t&n=100&fl=0&x=wrt

do you still not show up for its regular keywords?
was your host maybe down?

actually I took another quick peak

what is this stuff?
virtualsheetmusic.8m.com/piano-sheet-music.html
likely the type of stuff that can cause an editor to hapily want to delist your site

[fabrizio]

seobook,
thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately these sites are not mine, are only sites that link to me.

Also the virtualsheetmusic.8m.com is not mine either.

I never did spam!

Any idea is very welcome.

Sincerely,
Fab.

[seobook]

well tell the people who are creating gateway pages into your site to take them down.

oddly enough I recntly did consultation for a site that had doorway pages & got banned from Yahoo!

[fabrizio]

Thank you Seobook,
but don't have doorway pages on my site. If you found any page that is like or similar to a doorway page, please tell me it.

The strange thing is that my site is still listed in the "Sheet Music and Notation > Classical" directory as Most Popular site:

http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Music/Sheet_Music_and_Notation/By_Genre/Classical/


Maybe I should contact Yahoo! Folks? I guess I would never receive a reply...

Thank you for your kindness.

Fab.

[fabrizio]

Great news!

After one week my site returned back in the index. Now it is still present in Yahoo!, MSN and all the Inktomi related SEs (HotBot, AllTheWeb, etc.)

Thank you for your kindness and advices!

Sincerely,
Fabrizio