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Tips For Yahoo!:
Yahoo is one of the hardest search engines to get listed at and one of the most important. One thing to remember in trying to get listed with Yahoo! is that they are very selective. They will not index just anyone. A Web site must be both unique in content and fall within their directory structure. Yahoo! is not a search engine, they are a search directory. One of the most important things to remember when trying to index your Web site with Yahoo! is that relevancy to your site is based on the Title and Comments that you give them. Try to use words people would use to find your Web site both in your Title and Comments.
General Information:
Around since late 1994, Yahoo! is the oldest major Web site directory. Yahoo! is well-known, well-used and well-respected. Yahoo's traffic increased to more than 1.1 billion page views per day on average during March 2001, increasing more than 22 percent from page views served during December 2000. Yahoo is a very important search engine to be listed on.
Because Yahoo! is a directory based on user submissions, it may not have some sites in its catalog that a crawler might find from searching the Web each day. If a search of Yahoo!'s catalog doesn't turn up any useful links, users may then wish to consult with a real search engine.
Yahoo! operates under the Microsoft concept that you don't have be good, you just have to be first and the biggest. Their database is terrible with dead and decaying links that are 2-3 years old and out-of-date - their choices for inclusion are notoriously some of the worst particular sites on the Net under that category.
Yahoo!'s strength and success as a guide comes from humans. Unlike the search engines, Yahoo! does not spider Web sites to build listings automatically, using technology. Instead, human editors provide the brain power and intuition needed to classify the Web's many offerings.
Through this human effort, Yahoo! has become the de-facto Dewey Decimal System for categorizing Web sites. If you are looking for something, you'll usually find a relevant subject in Yahoo! that lists Web resources, but chances are it's not really worth your efforts.
Unfortunately, humans are also Yahoo!'s weakness. As submissions increase, the guide must either bring on new editors to process listings, let the backlog grow or simply accept a smaller percentage of listings as in the past.
Currently, it's the third choice that is being followed. A smaller percentage is getting in.
However, below are some known things that can increase your chances of getting listed on Yahoo!.
Rankings Priority Rundown:
1. $$, the more you give them, the higher your ranking.
2. Keywords appearing in TITLE (user submitted TITLE).
3. Listings are sorted alphabetical by title (in most all cases).
Special Tips:
1. Entry level pages on a domain have the highest chance of getting listed.
2. Some have suggested that Yahoo! is now a business directory only and new listings are almost required to have a base level domain.
3. Regional Entries. Sites that use the regional (city/country) Yahoo! sites have a higher chance of getting listed.
4. All of the major free hosted sites have been banned. (Tripod, Geocites, Xoom)
5. Pitching a fit. Yahoo! will occasionally respond to aggressive critical email.
6. Email response is almost non existent. - If you can find their voice mail number - use it.
Our Evaluation:
(Summary. strong points, weaknesses, criticism, recommendations to users etc.)
Yahoo! search is one of the most well known, but lacks an up-to-date database. Since many sites are announced by the creators there are a lot of commercial sites in the database. The precision of the hits is often high. The information about the documents is very poor, only the title and a short comment is available. Also the information about the service and the search help is relatively poor. Yahoo!! offerers some additional services which are very interesting (hourly updated headlines, weather and regional information is Yahoo!'s strong points.

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