If you are a non-American enterprise with a .com net deal with, and your regional Yahoo rating is necessary to you, then my story may curiosity you.
Recently my copywriting net site born out of Yahoo's Australian rankings. For fairly some time, it had been at number one for my major key phrases "advertising copywriter", "copywriter", and "website copywriter". But then it out of the blue disappeared. I clicked via about 10 pages of outcomes, and it was nowhere to be seen. I then looked for my area, and Yahoo could not discover it.
Something smelt fishy.
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I'd achieved nothing 'naughty' to my net site to warrant a ban, and I still had dozens of hyperlinks to my net site (really, I had greater than ever earlier than).
I'm an Australian promoting copywriter. I'm based mostly simply north of Sydney and I host my net site with a serious Australian host. But my net deal with is a .com, not a .au. I began considering this is maybe the issue.
So I emailed Yahoo assist, explaining the issue, and sharing my ideas on the trigger.
And hastily, nothing occurred.
So I waited. And I waited. And I waited. And lastly, after about few weeks, I obtained an e-mail from a Yahoo assist adviser informing me - inright - that my key phrase wasn't featured in my webpage title or description. I ought to treatment this defect and re-submit my net site to Yahoo.
Frustrated, I replied. I perennial the necessary information from the primary e-mail simply to make a point they'd listened. They hadn't. They hadn't even looked for my area to verify that Yahoo now not recognised it.
When they received again to me this time, they'd began paying a bit extra consideration. The assist rep confirmed my suspicion that Yahoo had excluded my net site attributable its .com URL. Her very useful answer was that I ought to change my area to .au! She encircled some preposterously complex directions for a way to take action, and despatched me on my merry method.
As you may anticipate, I wasn't glad. Nor was I merry. I defined to her that this was not an appropriate answer as a result of all of the hyperlinks to my net site on the web are pointing to the .com and my e-mail deal with makes use of the .com.
She was unmoved. She declared that this was the most effective and entirely method to clear up the issue. Oh... and it would assist if I added my major key phrase to my title and outline.
My laugh was not good humoured! I wrote again expressing my displeasure at this "solution". I fastidiously defined how Yahoo had made a mistake, and that if Google was able to recognising my Australian enterprise regardless of its .com addresses, I power suppose it is technically potential. I additionally cited a number of different .coms inside the first couple of pages of Australian outcomes.
No response.
The scenario did not look promising...
If this seems like a well-recognized story to you, do not despair. Every week or two later, I searched Yahoo Australia for my major key phrase, and shock, shock... My net site was hierarchic number one once more!
The ethical to the story? Don't be intimidated by Yahoo. Trust your instincts and do not surrender. If you are an Australian enterprise with a .com, and you are ex-directory in Australian searches, this is maybe why. In reality, I power suppose this story is bound up all regional Yahoos. (Of course, earlier than making any accusations, it is a good suggestion to verify your net site is right optimised and that you've tons of inward hyperlinks.)
Anyway, that is my story. I hope it helps somebody.
And all of them lived fortuitously ever after. So far a minimum of...
Yahoooooooo!
The End.
