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That’s strange… I get daily hits from Yahoo, MSN, and Google.
I’ll have to look inot this, then, I guess.
kwblue wrote:That’s strange… I get daily hits from Yahoo, MSN, and Google.I’ll have to look inot this, then, I guess.
Don’t worry there’s a lot of people in the same boat, if you look here http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=progressive-watch.com&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8 you’ll see they have delisted all your subpages and in there place are the sites linking to you, this is a clear indication of a penalty. Your other site in your sig is ok though.
I wonder if that is due, though, to my duplicated content on each page instead of the aff links? I recently updated the site and use a file called ‘lowerpageindex.html’ which contains all the bottom content. It is the same on all 40+ pages.
I don’t think there is an easy way to get re-included either, is there??
kwblue wrote:I wonder if that is due, though, to my duplicated content on each page instead of the aff links? I recently updated the site and use a file called ‘lowerpageindex.html’ which contains all the bottom content. It is the same on all 40+ pages.I don’t think there is an easy way to get re-included either, is there??
Not really, they are not keen on gambling related sites and to get back in you would need to remove all aff links and get rid of your links pages if you have any, you could request a review and if that fails you also have a option of requesting a re-review but don’t hold your breath.
Incase your intrested here’s the link to request a review
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/ysearch/cgi_urlstatus6 months ago, my sites were having trouble in Yahoo, most likely because I had too many affiliate links, and not enough content. Or, I had too many outbound links in general (not necessarily “affiliate” links). I was suffering from the penalty where Yahoo shows only your main page in the index, and then as a sub-result, it shows the same thing.
Anyway, I increased the amount of content on my sites and didn’t do anything at all with the links. A few months later, my sites were indexed properly.
In your case, I suppose it could be due to duplicate content, depending on how much is actually duplicated on those 40 pages. Check out this duplicate content / similar page checker — it might be useful to you.
All of my pages are 78% similar to each other
Probably not the ideal percentage.I’ll have to re-create the page for each section. Easy enough to do as I set it up for that, but it will take me time to create 40 pages of SEO pages.
damn algorithms.
Engineer wrote:6 months ago, my sites were having trouble in Yahoo, most likely because I had too many affiliate links, and not enough content. Or, I had too many outbound links in general (not necessarily “affiliate” links). I was suffering from the penalty where Yahoo shows only your main page in the index, and then as a sub-result, it shows the same thing.Anyway, I increased the amount of content on my sites and didn’t do anything at all with the links. A few months later, my sites were indexed properly.
In your case, I suppose it could be due to duplicate content, depending on how much is actually duplicated on those 40 pages. Check out this duplicate content / similar page checker — it might be useful to you.
I had the same problem even though i had loads of unique content, your very lucky to get back in, i got my main site back in for about 8 months and it got dropped again a few week back, your the only other person i know with a gambling related website who’s got back in.
(edit) screwed up my post.. re-posted below.
cyclone wrote:…your the only other person i know with a gambling related website who’s got back in.I’ll be the 3rd.
My sites are listed – 163 pages for one and 102 (smaller site) for the other.
ntaus
ntaus8 wrote:My sites are listed – 163 pages for one and 102 (smaller site) for the other.ntaus
Yes – But the point here was a site being BANNED in Yahoo and then getting RE-listed.
Just an update to my site being penalized by affiliate links.
I am no longer penalized after removing the majority of my duplicate content (my pages had a common lower section across all pages).
I did NOT remove affiliate links and I am now re-indexed on most of my pages
Hi ,that’s great to hear!:colgate:
For us its different, it seems that since I hid the affiliate links on the index page Yahoo now indexes about 7 pages. Odd.
Does anyone thing that the footer and navigation bar being the same on your site could cause “duplicate content” issues?
That’s good news, kwblue! :bigsmile:
Does anyone thing that the footer and navigation bar being the same on your site could cause “duplicate content” issues?
That probably depends on how much non-header, non-footer content you have on each page. If your header and footer makes up 90% of the textual content on each page, then you might have problems. 90% is only a guess, though; I have no idea what the actual number might be — it could be 99%, or maybe it’s only 50%.
Personally, I wouldn’t worry much about this unless you actually encounter a problem. If it works fine the way you originally set it up, then move on…. If something happens, i.e. if the pages get filtered out of the index, then adjust the pages by adding content or by removing some of the duplicate header/footer text, as kwblue did. The spiders will find the altered pages, and if they are unique enough, they will add them to the index again.
