Re: Yahoo!

From: Barbara Sybal <gfx_at_gfxinc.com>
Date: Thu 23 Nov 2000 09:23:01 -0500

MATT MICKIEWICZ <matt_at_sitepoint.com> WROTE:
> After three failed attempts at getting a free listing
> in Yahoo over a 6 month period our company wasted $600
> US in submitting the three sites of our Network to
> Yahoo! All were rejected.

TO WHICH HEATHER ASHLEY WONDERFUL <nitsug953_at_n2trouble.com> REPLIED:
> won't help getting you there. Everybody wants to be
> there because their directory generates TONS of traffic
> for those who are listed. Content doesn't necessarily
> make the cut but GOOD content will. Plus they have the
> choice of what catagory you will be placed in even if
> you DO make it. Remember, you have tons of competetion
> trying to get into this site that gets millions of

Long time lurker here jumping into the fray ...

My site is listed in Yahoo!, but unfortunately it's
placed so deep into a regional category that I hardly
receive a blip of visitors from them.

As a somewhat biased observer, Yahoo! appears to favour
Americans ... if my site was listed along side my
competitors, I'd be dancing on the rooftops.
Ironically, over 90% of our online sales are from
Americans, so why Yahoo expects that non-American sites
choose a regional category is beyond me.

I, for one, am quite cautious about their new
submission policy, as I expect that with any new sites
we launch, they'll want to bury us in a regional
category ... but they'll take our money for sure,
without notifying us that we can't submit to a main
category (which I suspect may be Matt's gripe as well).

I digress though ... I merely want to say that your
statement about "getting TONS of traffic ..." is
erroneous or misinformed, but is probably quite true
for US-based sites.

For example, try http://ca.yahoo.com (Yahoo Canada) and
you'll see that the search defaults to "all sites", not
just Canadian ones ... only the most savvy (or
non-lazy) people will check "Canadian sites only" I
presume.

I'd love to give them (and other directories) my money,
but only if I can dictate exactly where I can submit my
site ... if they want to become Global Yellow Pages,
then I should be allowed to tell them, not

vice versa.

        Barb

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