I’m not sure if this goes for all verticals or just insurance, but our friends over at Yahoo! are having a really tough time filtering Xanga spam sites out of their search results. Here’s an example of our site in a Xanga sandwich:

The funny thing is that it looks like Xanga has already deleted the spam insurance blogs and thrown up a page to explain the blog is gone, and Yahoo! has indexed the deleted page. Funnily, the pages still remain at the top of the results at Yahoo! (in the case above the Xanga spam blog is #1 for the term “home insurance”).

If there is anyone out there from Xanga, do us all a favor and slap a “noindex” meta tag on your “Site Status Message” pages. And if you are a Yahoo!, don’t you think it’s time to get this cleared up? If I was a normal searcher and I saw results like this, I would think your search engine was broken.

Maybe easier said than done, but with the way things have been going at Yahoo! recently, you’d think they couldn’t afford search quality issues like this.