[thelist] RE: changing your listing in yahoo

Cayley Vos cvos at netpaths.net
Wed Apr 17 14:16:00 CDT 2002


Yahoo is getting to the point where it is becoming too watered down with
frivolous content. Just do a search for vstore.com and see the hundreds of
affiliates who paid 299$  to be listed.

Be careful - if you alert yahoo to changes in your domain, they may change
your description - for the worse!  Then you have paid AND get less traffic




on 4/16/02 7:48 AM, thelist-request at lists.evolt.org at
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:

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>> From: dn at dittodesign.co.uk [mailto:dn at dittodesign.co.uk]
>> Has it got to the point were I will need to hand over
>> some cash ? Or is there another way to get them to
>> make the changes.
>
> in my experience yahoo will do very little for you if you don't pay. i
> haven't succeeded to place any of my non-commercial sites in the directory
> via the free submittal program (my last attempt was half year ago, though).
> some friends tell me they were able to get into the directory pretty
> quickly. so there still seems to be a fair bit of randomness in the process.
>
> actually i do have a site in the directory. one project of mine that has
> caused quite a stir in the weblog community and hit mainstream media was
> picked up by a yahoo editor on his own. when i moved the project to a new
> url i used the change form - and i was suprised to see that they changed it
> within a week. i guess there's some kind of ranking system in place which
> rates sites picked by editors higher than others.
>
> <rant>
> personally i think yahoo (at least the directory divison) has lost it. they
> don't show any interest at all in mapping the web evenly. it's a pity that a
> yahoo directory listing still matters that much (that directory listing of
> mine drives a *lot* of traffic to the project).
> </rant>




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