Our website was banned or blacklisted from yahoo. Its been like thie
for about 5 months. We tried filling out some form to remove the ban,
waited for 2 months and nothing happened. We need a company or person
or an idea on how to get back in the yahoo search engines. I was
originally blacklisted because I had all kinds of links and keywords
at the bottom of my homepage. I have removed those a long time ago.
Please help me get an assured way of getting back on yahoo!!!!!!!

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Request for Question Clarification by muhammad-ga on 25 Aug 2005 21:58 PDT

Hello!

What is the website address? Do you remember which Form you filled in
order to have the ban lifted?

Thanks

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Clarification of Question by lizmall-ga on 26 Aug 2005 18:08 PDT

clubreplica.com and no I do not remember the form I filled out. It was
basically a form that was supposed to be forwarded to the editors. It
was a while back, so I don't quite remember.

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Clarification of Question by lizmall-ga on 27 Aug 2005 14:08 PDT

Because we have so many links and link popularity and hits and traffic
ranking associated with this site. We don't want to loose all that.

Dear lizmall,

Unlike some of the commenters below, I do not recommend replicating
your site content under another domain name. Such a dishonest tactic
is liable to cause you more trouble in the long run.

Once you have removed all objectionable material from your site, which
I believe to be the case after my recent perusal, it should be ready
for removal from any blacklists. It is not surprising if a free
submission form is not responsive, since these forms are often
conduits to an unsupervised mailbox or to a vast backlog that will not
be cleared for months.

For faster response, I suggest you turn to Yahoo's paid submission
service. In particular, Search Submit Express guarantees inclusion in
the index after your site has passed an editorial review. Search
Submit Express includes an optional pay-per-click program, but it will
suffice for your present purposes to pay the $49 submission and review
fee.

Yahoo: Search Submit Express: Pricing
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/srchsb/sse_pr.php

This is the course of action I would take if I were in your place. It
is more prudent and less expensive than the alternatives.

Regards,

leapinglizard

Why not just register another domain, copy the site over to that
domain (using similar keywords in the domain) and submit it to Yahoo!?
 I don't see why that wouldn't work.

Change your domain whois information like you were selling the domain
and site to someone else, send an email to yahoo (or try to call them,
even better) stating that you are the new owner of the domain and
explain them the situation and tell them that you want to apply for
being added to their directory. Pay for yahoo express inclussion, and
you are done 99,9%.

Dear Fair. You say this will work 99% change? Please be certain. Thank you.

As of May 2005, Yahoo is not removing any bans.  They are in the
process of updating their system allowing for a better process to
dispute bans and get your website re-reviewed.

In the meantime, the only thing to do is to create a new domain for
your website YOURDOMAIN2.com, copy all the pages there and submit the
second website for inclusion in Yahoo.  It will get crawled and your
pages will show up again within a week or two.

Your current domain being banned from Yahoo doesn't mean you are
losing any links from other sites to you.  The only thing you are
losing is that your site wouldn't come up when searching for your
target keywords on yahoo, because yahoo is not indexing the pages of
your site.

To fix that, simply copy all pages and create a YOURDOMAIN2 website
and then your pages will be listed in Yahoo.

The one important thing you need to do is - change your robots.txt
file on the YOURDOMAIN2.com to prevent Google from crawling it. 
Reason: Google will penalize you if it finds YOURDOMAIN2 is a
duplicate site so we block Google from scanning it.

Follow these steps and your pages are guaranteed to show back up in Yahoo.