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Campy
07-19-2004, 11:21 PM
Please help, my site www.retirement-4-u.com was listed on the front page near the top for the keywords, retirement planning, early retirement planning and retirement.
Since the middle of May, my site has dropped off the face of the earth on Yahoo, Hotbot, MSN and Alta Vista. I am still very high with Google.
Even more fustrating is the fact that my home page title "early retirement planning consultants USA" when used as a keyword search won't come up but sites that have linked to mine come up in the search. Am I being penalized by Yahoo, Hotbot and MSN?
Could I get some help here with a site review and suggestions on why my site is no longer coming up using the above keywords.
Thank you very much.

seo guy
07-20-2004, 12:12 AM
hmm not even showing up for your own name in Yahoo, not a good sign, I would suggest writing YAhoo directly at webmasterworldfeedback@yahoo.com they are very quick to respond make sure your as detailed and honest with your site as you can be
Good luck

l234244
07-20-2004, 02:21 PM
Seems to show up a couple of results for me retirement-4-u (http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site%3Aretirement-4-u.com%2F&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt)

seo guy
07-20-2004, 11:56 PM
I meant in an actual search for retirement 4 u it should show up, it doesnt

Campy
07-21-2004, 12:23 AM
Seo guy - thanks for your suggestion to write Yahoo. EXCELLENT suggestion! Yahoo replied that indeed, my site has been penalized. However they would not tell me why. Can anyone of the knowledgeable people on this forum offer any ideas. Again, my site is www.retirement-4-u.com
Thank you.

Datagg
07-23-2004, 01:55 PM
Are you running any door way pages for your site??

Im curious also as to why, if SEO guy or anyone has any ideas.

Campy
07-23-2004, 10:24 PM
Hi - no, I am not using any doorway pages or anything else to try to deceive search engines. However, yahoo for some reason doesn't agree with me. Funny too, since they GLADLY took my $299 for their express service and Overture Site Match took my money as well and Overture said, they couldn't see why Yahoo was penalizing my site, nor could they find out why!