Perhaps patience is a good policy. My previous post may have been premature. I did the search just now, one day later, and I’m back up to a ranking of #2. That’s more accurate.

Thank you,

JP

I find the changes very disturbing. So much so that I’ve gone back to Google.

I’ve not made any changes to my site, yet I’ve gone from #1 to no ranking at all. I always came up as #1 or #2 in the over 2 million sites found. The search words are Chinese Porcelain, and for many years I’ve been in the top 10. I’ve not tried to trick the bots and spiders by creating hundreds of pages, nor multiple keywords. In fact, I have only 30 pages with just a handful of keywords on my main page. I don’t sell anything either. This, compared to my nearest competitor who has 1,200 pages with hundreds of keywords. and selling items as well. I was always on top, now I’ve disappeared completely.

I’m not sure if I like the new changes. Maybe I should create about 1,170 additional pages, fill up with hundreds of keywords, and sell things in order to compete. Seems unfair. I like the old Yahoo search engine better.

JP

Read my post on this topic :) :- http://webmaster-dome.com/?p=89

Google index’s 20,500 of our pages at http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com , many with a page rank of 6, and Yahoo index’s 5 pages.

Yahoo gives 14 reasons a site may be dropped.

I believe we comply with all 14 of yahoo’s requirements for a legitimate web site- we have 5 full time writers that create original content for us as well as a digest of information.
• We have zero pages that harm accuracy, diversity or relevance of search results -
• We have zero pages dedicated to directing the user to another page
• We have zero pages that have substantially the same content as other pages
• We have zero sites with numerous, unnecessary virtual hostnames – we do have 20 sub domains.
• We have zero pages auto generated or of of little value
• We have zero pages using methods to artificially inflate search engine ranking
• Nowhere do we use text that is hidden from the user
• We have zero pages that give the search engine different content than what the end-user sees
• We have zero excessively cross-linking sites to inflate a site’s apparent popularity, we do cross link to a very few directly related sites.
• We have zero pages built primarily for the search engines
• We never mention let alone misuse a competitor name.
• We have zero sites offering the same content, Other sites do copy us and are sent Cease and Desist orders to them and their Service providers.
• We have zero pop-ups, interfering with user navigation
• We have zero pages that seem deceptive, fraudulent or provide a poor user experience.
And we don’t allow robots to crawl our moderated forums thus avoiding the possibility of someone sneaking in bad outbound links.
I too want Yahoo to succeed as a great search engine.
Our site has thousands of visitors every day, all from google.
Is there something in yahoo’s algorithms that is misreading our site or
Is their something about our site that I don’t know about?

Some spam has moved off page one, but others with duplicate or mulitiple sites and pages have move up, with at least one url per page.

That being said, for those who spend to much time searching spam and reporting it! Just work on your own site it will bring more benefit.

While I don’t think this is the best update in the world, it’s not really much worse than Google. In fact, I think Yahoo search has been better than Google for awhile. I actually find what I’m looking for more quickly with Yahoo (but still takes work). Google brings up everything but what I’m looking for, especially when I do academic searches. With them it seems to be all about what site has more clout, not what words are next to one another on the page. I like not having to put my phrases in quotes so much when I use Yahoo. I wish I wouldn’t have to do it at all though. My favorite results would have to be Google in 2002/2003. I never had to use operators to find what I wanted.