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Do not try to attain a higher listing using titles like "AAA My Site", etc. Remember, humans read this stuff, and are clever enough to figure out what you're trying to do.
While Yahoo! is category based, the majority of users will still use the search feature when trying to find something in particular. This search will be based on keywords found in your title and description. So be sure to use appropriate keywords when describing your site, just in a readable, sensible way.
Things to do to NOT get listed
Tell their staff to "hurry up already".
Submit your URL repeatedly. Because a listing can take up to 2 months before it goes in, wait at least 6 weeks before requesting a listing a second time.
Submit your URL to regional indexes and categories that have nothing to do with your site.
Spam keywords in your titles and description when submitting.
One more time...
Wait until your site is done before submitting.
Read their submission rules at least twice.
Find the appropriate category for your site (or categories, you can have 2 listings)
Review your submission carefully before sending it off.
Good Luck! Remember, be patient in waiting for a listing. You can re-submit your URL if your submission was overlooked, but wait at least 6 weeks!
* WHAT'S YAHOO! *
Yahoo! is an online navigational guide to the Web. Yahoo! is a database of links to other sites. Yahoo! does not provide any original content, so it can only reference sites that already exist. Most sites in Yahoo! are suggested by users. Sites are placed in categories by Yahoo! Surfers, who visit and evaluate all suggestions and decide where they best belong. This is done to ensure that Yahoo! is organized in the best possible way, making the directory easy to use, intuitive, helpful, and fair to everyone.
Yahoo! is the largest directory on the WWW and the most visited, so it's really important to be listed in it: it drives a lot of traffic to the sites listed in it. Yahoo is not a keyword driven search engine. Yahoo is a CATALOG!!! Yahoo does not list web sites with any regard to the keyword content of your web page. Fact is, Yahoo does not even index your page at all -- they only index the name of your company and the brief site description that you give them at the time that you submit.

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* YAHOO! AND CATEGORIES *
First Search Yahoo! with the keywords you think that best fits your web site. Then you must find the category the best fits your site. Click on the category link (example: Business and Economy: Companies: Internet Services: Web Services: Promotion).
DO NOT submit to irrelevant categories because you're just wasting your time and Yahoo!'s time. You will see an orange button at the very top next to the Yahoo! logo that says 'Add URL'. Click on it and that category will automatically appear as the category that you will add to (You won't have to manually type in a category). After that it's pretty self explanatory, BUT read the important tips below when submitting title, description, and extra categories for Yahoo.
HOW IT RANKS PAGES
Keywords in the domain name and file name. Keywords in Title. Keywords in Description. Keywords in Category. Does not support META Tags. Doesn't accept multiple Do NOT submit anything to Yahoo until you are crystal clear exactly what two categories you wish to be listed in. And you should use the 'Add URL' from your first choice category only (Your second choice category will be a 'fill-in' that should be copy & pasted once you've selected it) and then, is only completed at the time you are submitting your web site. That means that you do NOT submit until you have examined all of your options and you have chosen your top two categories.
Examining the results in a search for certain keywords, we find that every listing contains the name of a company and the description they submitted, and there is no hype whatsoever in any of these descriptions. You will not find the words 'best' 'incredible' 'special' 'coolest' 'marvelous', etc... In fact, using anything that remotely resembles 'hype' words in your submitted description (not on your web page, mind you -- in your submitted description), is the right way on Yahoo to not be listed!
* HOW TO SUGGEST A SITE *
The Yahoo! directory is organized by subject. Most sites in it are suggested to us by users. Sites are placed in categories by Yahoo! Surfers, who visit and evaluate your suggestions and decide where they best belong. We do this to ensure that Yahoo! is organized in the best possible way, making the directory easy to use, intuitive, helpful, and fair to everyone. With this in mind, we ask that you follow three simple, yet important steps if you have a site (URL) you'd like to suggest: -
Step 1:
Check to See if Your Site is Already in Yahoo! An important first step, because if your site is already listed in Yahoo!, you need go no further. Check by searching Yahoo! for your site by title, or by browsing appropriate categories. (Note: If your site is already listed in Yahoo! but you want to change its comments, title, and/or placement, you need to use the change form. This is an entirely different process.) -
Step 2:
Find the Appropriate Category in Yahoo!Finding an appropriate category for your site is at the heart of this process. Remember that Yahoo! Surfers visit each site suggested to us, and proper categorization on your part helps us process suggestions quickly. What is an appropriate category? Click here to read a list of important pointers explaining how we organize our directory. (Notes: If you are suggesting a chat area, scheduled chat, or live broadcast, including audio or video, please submit directly to Yahoo! Net Events. And if your site is only in French, German, Korean, or Japanese, please submit directly to the relevant Yahoo! sister site in France, Germany, Korea, or Japan.) -
Step 3:
Suggest your site from the Appropriate Category.Suggest your site from the category you think most appropriate. Do this by clicking on the 'Add URL' graphic at the top of that category page. (It's the middle, orange button, one of three buttons next to the red 'Yahoo!' banner.) Again, there is a list of important pointers to help you establish where your site belongs.
Also remember that the final placement of your site is determined by Yahoo! Surfers. Finally, suggesting a site is free. You pay us nothing. When you click on 'Add URL' in the appropriate category, you'll see an online form asking for information about your site. (In the 'category' space on the form, you'll see the name of the category you've chosen.)
Please be prepared to provide, among other information, your site's title, URL, and a brief description. Finally, thanks for the site. Thanks for contributing to Yahoo! By following the above steps (in order, no less!) you're helping us process sites in a timely manner.

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[This message has been edited by Janet Berg (edited 03-27-2000).]

I hired this fellow in November to do some SE positioning for me. Sent a check to India, and then never heard a word from him. You know the deal...

Freepromote.com copyright intriguedesign.net, Toronto.

Then we have a section from http://www.promotion101.com/yahoo_submission.shtml

Steal content and you will be spotted.

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[This message has been edited by Ness (edited 03-29-2000).]

The last thing an overworked live editor needs is to run on to a bunch of mis-directed sites in the totally wrong category. With thousands of categories, no-one can remember them all nor should they be expected to. It's not their job to submit a site to the proper category, it's the webmaster's.

Now, as a submitter of my own site to Yahoo, I would like to see it there just as much as anyone wants to see their site in. But it takes time and that's all there is to it.

The point is that it CAN be done and I'm living proof you don't need to be web design genius, 'cause I made the whole site with FrontPage 98 and didn't know diddly when I started it.

For the record, I submitted it once and forgot about it, because we were really highly ranked in the default Inktomi index which came up under most keywords.

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[This message has been edited by Bin (edited 04-05-2000).]

All of the sites I have submitted have been good, content filled, and complete. There has never been any attempt to mislead, or to place a site in an inappropriate category. When appropriate, I've even tried submitting to the regional sites, still no luck. Nothing I've submitted in the past has even been reviewed.

I've come to the conclusion that even submitting to Yahoo is a waste of my time and my customers' money.