Thanks Simmo, I’ll head over to WW and check things out.
I used to use aff tags on my site, but about a month ago I started redirecting the links so that I could track how many people were clicking each link. I suppose it’s possible Yahoo may have “flagged” the site before I made the changes.
However, on my other site (Onlinepokercraze.com), I do link directly to casinos and poker rooms with the aff tags in plain view (no redirects). And that site is not being punished at all. LOL!
If there is a Yahoo “duplicate content penalty” out there, then Onlinepokercraze would be the one to get punished (not Choice Gambling), because I have a Texas Holdem tutorial on OPC which can be found on several other sites. (It’s a syndicated tutorial, and I have permission from the author to use it).
Meanwhile, on Choice Gambling, very little content there can be found verbatim anywhere else. I do use some words and phrases from pre-written casino reviews (provided by the affiliate programs), but I edit and rephrase everything quite a bit, and I add other details to the page to make it even more unique (e.g. payment options, security info, etc). Each casino review is “unique” as far as the search engines are concerned.
Anyway, I’m off to webmaster world; thanks for the tip. From first glance, it looks like a ton of people are having the same problem I am. Interesting.