Getting listed in Yahoo!

[cygnet74]

I was fortunate enough to get a listing in Yahoo with a regular submission about two years ago. However, all submissions since then have failed. I was wondering if anyone has experience paying the $200 fee to have the site reviewed. Have you ever paid and still got rejected? Their site says that's a possibility. Like anyone, I don't want to waste my money so if anyone has info on what type of site got accepted -- original content? sponser content? what? -- or anything else of importance, I'd be glad to hear it.

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Addison Brock III
webmaster at MyGirlz.com
traffic trade?

[This message has been edited by cygnet74 (edited 02-14-2001).]

[Maqua]

Hello

I'm positive the price is raised to $600. for adult sites and this fee gives you no guarantee that they will list you it only guarantee's that they will review your site in a timely matter

[evildick]

Wow, what a bargain. I can't picture anyone paying that.

[Corpsie]

Yahoo is losing visitors to www.google.com

I don't suggest worrying about yahoo that much.

IF you have a TGP, try to get listed
on www.persiankitty.com

[Mrboogity]

it all depends on what you think a yahoo listing is worth for your site. depending on the quality of your site, the $600 advertising at yahoo could very easily pay for itself right away.

[Mikey]

It is $600 now. I paid $200 last year and had not problems getting listed. It was my paysite. I made it back the first day.

I have heard of people spending the money and not getting listed.

[Rictor]

If you have a decent site it will get listed eventually. I think the $600 could be invested more wisely.

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[haboles]

cygnet74 , it's easy to see what types of sites get listed in Yahoo.
simply right something like "Nude Celebs" in Yahoo's search box and see how the sites that got listed look like.

[Susan]

I have non adult site listed at Yahoo. I failed the first visit for poor site navigation so it was about 1 year from launch before they listed me. Being a non adult site the bandwidth is un-restricted, if your adult site gets listed make sure you have the revenue generators running to cover the bandwidth bill. Yahoo likes to see well planned sites with original layout. They hate pop ups and anthing thats not under control of the visitor. And yes google is fast getting very popular because of its bullshit free layout and positive results. Might be a good idea if some of you top ten auto popping banner box makers started thinking that way, people are getting bored and net wise, its time for a re-think.

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[NightLizard]

Hi,
I have a few non-adult sites listed in Yahoo, what I found easier, if you are not based in the US, is to get listed in the Canadian directory first. Even with the free submission I got listed and then they offered to place me in the big Yahoo as well.
As for the 600$, if they reject you, they will give you an explanation and if you improve they will list you. So I think it is worthwhile, they still get a shitload of quality traffic even though google is neat. All the Best

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[bcric]

hi
i agree with susan pop up's suck i try to funnel the surfer out through the end of my site in to one of my sponsers although i don't know if it is working 40 bucks in 4 months are not that great but i'm still pretty green
thanks ric

[Susan]

Pop ups get results if used properly. Trouble is some people just over cook them and dont control their action on the back clicks. Cookies are a good way to control your auto stuff and there are plenty of clever little pieces of code available at the java sites. If you ask most surfers what they do with pops ups at porn sites they will say "close them immediately and try to navigate the original page" Multi level pop ups really annoy people, often to the point of them closing everything and making a new search. Pop ups without navigation can actually force the inexperienced to re-start their conputers. Don't know about you guys but the last thing i want to do is annoy folk. My only aim is to get them to the sign up page without too many obstacles.

[Interlude]

Remember that no matter how you get into Yahoo, you're going to get about 3,000 hits for the first 3 days and then about 20-40 hits a day after that from your listing (assuming that they phrase your description to include the keywords you want).

Worth $600? Hell no, unless by some miracle you get lucky and they give you an awesome description.

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[Dyanna]

Whoever said it up higher is right - while you might be better off using that $600 right now in some other way, a yahoo listing is without question worth every penny of $600

[Corpsie]

Originally posted by Corpsie:
Yahoo is losing visitors to www.google.com

according to Yahoo's site, Yahoo is now "Powered by Google"

[mayor575]

we are about to spend the money to list our new store www.007-adult-videos.com but I gotta say I am a little scheptical. I mean they make you pay the money and you think the listing is going to be great and you are going to make truck loads of money. But if that was the case would everyone be forking over the cash? But better yet what is a better use of 600 to filter quality traffic to the store?

if you have a clue please share

[Warphead]

Hey Mayor, gimme $600, I'll send you some traffic.

Seriously though, I'm also lucky to have gotten a listing in Yahoo before all this spot-selling started. And to be honest I don't approve of selling spots in "search engines" no matter how they justify it, it's no different than if I start blind-linking sponsers in my listings if ya ask me.

I figure it is worth it for a pay site to pay the 600 though. It doesn't take long to sell 600 dollars worth of memberships, my main sponsers pay me alot more than that every month - and I'd be willing to say that Yahoo's traffic is probably an easier sell then mine.

My main words of advice would be GET YOUR SITE TWEAKED FIRST. Make sure you can convert, and make sure it looks good enough that the reviewer will be nice in the listing.

[mayor575]

Hey Warphead thanks alot for your help and advice!

So ya wanna buy from our store

No seriously you mentioned to make sure that it is good enough for the SE

any criteques you can provide would be most appreciated!

To your continued success

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www.ritasdesign.com
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[GTS Mark]

I got listed in Yahoo and Google and get a steady 60 or so uniques a day from them... I have had no luck getting indexed with any other search engines as of late. I use Web Position Gold but have seen little results other than the yahoo/google search engine. If I could just get the same results with 3-4 more busy search engines I would be happy! Any suggestions on how I can?
Thanks
Mark

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[mischief]

Just out of curiosity, do you have to pay yahoo 600 bucks for every site you list, or is it a one time thing?

[Interlude]

It's $600 per URL... basically a total ripoff. You can either get 20-30 hits a day from an average link site or spend $600 for the same thing.

I've had a shitty free site listed on Richards-Realm for about 2 years now, it sends the same amount of traffic as my Yahoo! listing and converts far better.

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[IndianJoe]

Your site looks cool and the music is great and women are beautiful...The only bad part about your site is the only active link I found was the contact us link. You have no information about what your company can do or what they offer even... I think you need to add more of that to the site.

Originally posted by mayor575:
Hey Warphead thanks alot for your help and advice!

So ya wanna buy from our store

No seriously you mentioned to make sure that it is good enough for the SE

any criteques you can provide would be most appreciated!

To your continued success

[cygnet74]

I guess it's not worth it. But I was surprised to see people saying they only get from 20 to 60 uniques a day from Yahoo. The only site I've had listed there (since 1997), still gets about 700 uniques from them each day. I guess I lucked out on the listing, huh?

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Addison Brock III
webmaster at MyGirlz.com
traffic trade?

[Nynteen]

I just re-signed up for Yahoo 2 days ago and have been getting hits, only a few, but they are there.
BTW, Google is owned by Yahoo.

[HQ]

$600 for how many hits/day? is the question!

even if it's 60/day, i could get more than that in a month for $600... but i'll get 60/day forever on yahoo right?

so how many total hits is worth $600? and how soon will i get that from yahoo? everything from there on is free traffic.



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[Aussie]

What about www.altavista.com

[skaz]

For $600, you can buy 40,000 top level text ads on google. Since you get to target by keyword, I imagine you would get a pretty good click-through rate. Yahoo may still be a better deal, especially since the listing is for "life".

[TheFLY]

I get 1100 hits/day from yahoo and google and I never signed up w/ them... link to enough sites and the search engines will find you on their own...



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