Re: Search engines...Specifically Yahoo

You might be interested to know that in a conversation I had the other
day with the SEO company who list top on a Google search for "Search
engine optimisation", which obviously speaks for itself, I was told that
Google and many other engines give a higher listing to sites listed in
Yahoo and ODP, so it's not just about people using those directories to
search for sites, it effectes placement in the SE's too.

Nigel

>>> "Karin Ransdell" <kransdell(at)squishedmosquito.com> 08/07/02 03:40am
>>>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Welcome to TeleSouth Network" <welcome(at)telesouth1.com>
To: <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: Search engines...Specifically Yahoo


> Hi guys,
>
> I notice that Yahoo seems to want to charge for commercial listings.
One
of
> our clients wants to be listed with them, yet can not find any way to
list
> for free as a commercial business. Is this the case or is there
something
> being hidden from the public.

The short answer?  Commercial sites pay.  Other sites stand little or
no
chance of ever being listed.  Yahoo has been doing this for nearly two
years.

Hidden from the public? Considering the dismal organization of most
such
sites, Yahoo gets a gold medal.


http://www.yahoo.com 
Go to the bottom, click on "How to Suggest a Site"
It's a short page, read it.

Under Step 3. Suggest Your Site From the Appropriate Category,
see the second paragraph, the one under the image.

"When you click on "Suggest a Site" in the appropriate category, you'll
see
an online form asking for information about your site. (If you are
suggesting your business site somewhere within our main commercial
categories, you will see a link to the fee-based Yahoo! Express
submission
process -- required for commercial sites. For more information about
Yahoo!
Express, please read our FAQ. To suggest a site through Yahoo!
Express,
click here.) "

If the 'required for commercial sites' didn't make it clear enough,
the
first of the Top 5 Questions in the Yahoo Express Help FAQ is "What is
Yahoo! Express?"  Second sentence of the answer includes "This service
is
required for sites submitting to certain commercial categories in
Yahoo.com".



Second question in the Submission Questions category - Why do I see
Yahoo!
Express as the only option under certain categories?

The first paragraph of the answer is "The Yahoo! Express program is
required
for commercial site submission in certain Yahoo! Directory categories
and is
an option elsewhere in the directory."



While many people still think of Yahoo as the be-all-end-all of search
engines, we don't prioritize it for our clients.  We submit them to
Yahoo
because some people think if you're successful enough to *buy* search
results, you're worth looking at.  Google and AlltheWeb.com get our
first
priority.

/k

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Karin Ransdell  kransdell(at)squishedmosquito.com 
Escapade Development Team
Squished Mosquito, Inc.
http://www.squishedmosquito.com  or  http://www.escapade.org 
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