However, it looks like other people are starting to experience the same thing.  Dammit.

So ok Yahoo!, you’ve totally dismissed some good local websites from your index.  Will they be back, or do you think your new (crappy) results are better?  Are you penalizing us for optimizing our clients to rank for “service + town name” searches?  Or is there something else going on?

Personally, the clients that took the biggest hits for me are all relatively new sites (2004+) .  They’ve just recently (within the last 4-8 months) done a redesign and are not listed in a ton of IYPs.  Is this the problem?  Is age an issue here?

Instead of good quality websites, should I be more concerned about Yelp, Local.com and Mixx?  That seems kind of backwards to me.