advanced access AA sites dropping in yahoo

[webmaster]

I have gotten a rash of phone calls this week from AA users checking out other services saying they have gotten dropped from yahoo. Are there any Advanced Access users on the forum experiencing a recent large drop in their yahoo rankings?

[u2man]

I considered using them (AA) and something is definitely going on in Yahoo. I was researching the top twenty sites in Yahoo for our market a month ago. They occupied 12 out of the top twenty positions. I checked last night and there is only one advanced access site in the top twenty. The rest are gone.

Maybe it's a duplicate content issue? I must say that most of their sites get cluttered up with so many homepage links to real estate directories etc etc. They look spammy and really besides search engine ranking what does that provide the consumer?

[judyo]

When it happened with Point2 I was wondering if AA would follow.

[Matt Scoggins]

My AA site has never really ranked very good in Yahoo, but very well with G & MSN. So, I'm not really stressing out over it like most people, but then again, I did buy one of your templates, which is already starting to rank pretty well with Yahoo.

[webmaster]

I just checked las vegas, a market I review quite often, and there is not a single AA site on the first page, there used to be a few. In fact there isnt an AA site in the top 20. Looks like at least on a small scale, something is up.

[Joe Butler]

I have aa went from #1 to non existent.

[Matt Scoggins]

I think there is something definitely up, but things are still all over the place. My AA site been crawled the last 4 days straight by Yahoo. I couldn’t tell you the last time it’s was crawled by Yahoo. Just like when Google goes through an update, everyone starts to freak out and then when it’s all over and settles site positions normalize.

This site is #6 on the first page for Atlanta Real Estate:
mindspring.com/~petekong/

[Matt Scoggins]

Joe,

For what keyword?

[tom]

Our site dropped from Yahoo as well. But I dont blame them for it, it looks like a blind monkey with a chainsaw put it together. But im working on it. Still #1 on MSN and #2 on google (#1 for 2nd keyword on google).

I am working on city specific real estate pages to try and help my PR out (currently PR2) - hopefully the rest will follow. But I wouldnt blame AA, although I may not agree with absolutely everything they are a good company with good people and im sure if its something on thier end they will do whatever they can to fix it. Plus with v.4 comming out soon (crossing fingers) im sure that will help a great deal.

[webmaster]

I agree with you Tom, AA are a great company, and I am not blaming them at all, I am just wondering what is up with all the calls and comments and posted to see if anyone here experienced the same thing.