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[sefone]

I brought up in another thread that yahoo may have banned our site, but it seems we are indexed for only one page. In that thread it was suggested by Jill to sign up for Yahoo Search Submit in order to speak directly with a rep at Yahoo regarding our results or lack there of.

We are now considering this for a few other obvious reasons as well. My question is if I sign up for this how does it affect our natural results in Yahoo since these are mixed together?

In other words, if we sign up today run it for a few months until our natural results improve along with the Search Submit results and then decide to stop the Search Submit program, will this hurt our natural results we have built at that time?

Has anyone had any experience with Search Submit?

Thank you

[Jill]

We are now considering this for a few other obvious reasons as well. My question is if I sign up for this how does it affect our natural results in Yahoo since these are mixed together?

It becomes your natural results. (You won't have 2 separate listings.)

Since you're not having any natural results anyway, it won't effect yours at all!

[sefone]

Yes but if we decide to quit paying the ppc they charge then what happens to our results? Do they remove you from the search results completely?

Can you tell I am not a big fan of yahoo?

[Jill]

Well, perhaps someone who uses it can answer better. I believe that you may find your site missing for awhile until it gets back into the other crawl.

But if your site is banned or something, even search submit isn't going to get it to show up. The idea is to have a rep. you can ask why.

[AlDugan]

You can actually have Seacrh Submit results and unpaid actual natural listings appear in Yahoo natural listings at the same time. (This is possible if you have tracking parameters in your urls or the urls vary slightly.)

But if both url's are identical the paid (Search Submit) listing will remain while your natural listing is dumped.

Although Search submit listings appear in natural results they are completely seperate from actual natural results so if you decide to cancel your Search Submit account your natural results will remain intact.

[sefone]

Although Search submit listings appear in natural results they are completely seperate from actual natural results so if you decide to cancel your Search Submit account your natural results will remain intact.

Thank you very much that is the answer I was looking for.