Re: Yahoo

Steve,

if the site is non-commercial then it is still free to get a
listing.

if it is commercial for $25 a month (the equivalent of) Yahoo
will still deliver great volumes of traffic in the majority of
instances. Where people have come unstuck with Yahoo is in
looking at rankings.

My site name begins with a W, always has and always will. I will
never be able to compete on a drill down basis with the
alphabetical sites that are "!!!1Aaaa web site promotion" and
frankly don't want to. To me sites of that nature tell me
"spammer" people that are trying to manipulate the system.

The site will be accepted if it meets the criteria Yahoo
stipulate, not if there is no other site like that, they want
unique content, by that they man they don't wan't 100 boilerplate
sites with the same content on.

When looking at strategy for clients Yahoo is an absolute given,
if a client declines the advice then they are not a serious
business. My stance was different about a year ago, but traffic
from Yahoo has remained solid, so it's a thumbs up from me (FWIW)

Jim Banks
Web Diversity Limited
Search engine optimisation and pay per click campaign management
http://www.webdiversity.co.uk

Coming soon, all new site, newsletters, discussion forum for
search engine/PPC/marketing interested parties.

Watch this space!

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 20:17:39 -0600, "Steven Rook"
<Steveinid (AT) cableone (DOT) net> wrote:

I tried to submit my site to Yahoo thinking it was free (as I remember it
being) and
found that I need to pay 299 dollars for them to submit it. BUT, it would
only be
submitted if there weren't another web page like it.

I found this to be kind of backwards. I think that the people will
eventually reject
yahoo and go to search engines that are free simply for the variety that it
promotes.
I now look at yahoo differently. I thought its draw was the variety. They
can no
longer bring in the variety they once had. I have also noticed that my
searches are
bringing in fewer results and this also concerns me.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? I am new at the search engine game and
know
so little about it that I probably got it all wrong. Let me know.

Thanks,
Steve