If your site is commercial,
i.e., you sell products or services, Yahoo! now charges $299 for
to review and consider your site for inclusion in its searchable database;
and a $299 annual fee. If your site is denied, you will be told why and will have a chance
to appeal the decision. The Yahoo! commercial site review process is
called the "Business Express" service. See below for
instructions.
If your site is not
commercial (for example, you're submitting a site for a nonprofit
organization) you may submit your site information at no cost, however,
it may take some time for Yahoo! editors to review it (weeks/months).
http://www.yahoo.com
- Yahoo is an online directory. Like the yellow pages
telephone book, it
categorizes listings.
Submissions are reviewed by real people. Notes about Yahoo!:
Submit
only your home page URL.
Do not submit your site/URL if any page on your
site is incomplete. Yahoo editors will reject your
listing.
Do not submit your
site/URL more than once.
If
your site sells a service or product, it is
considered "commercial" and must be listed in a
sub-category of Business & Economy, using Yahoo!'s
"Business Express" service.
Do not include
sales hype in the Description or Title of your site that
you enter in Yahoo. (A site name, company name or
basic statement about your service/product is appropriate.)
The procedure to
submit/register your site is to actually do a search,
through Yahoo's categories, for your particular type
of product or service. (Do not merely type in a search
word and hit "Search".) Start with a main
category and drill down to the proper category.
It's a good idea to do such a search anyway and review
how your competitors' listings appear, so you get a
good idea of you would like viewers to read about your
site's listing.
Once you find the appropriate category, look for the
link with the words "Submit your site,"
"Add a site" or "Add URL". It can
usually be found at the bottom of the page.
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