Blast from the Past

Yahoo Directory Listing

[blend27]

...was looking thru an old email account messages and came across this:

From: bizex150 @ yahoo-inc.com [mailto:bizex150 @ yahoo-inc.com]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 12:32 PM
To: My Name
Subject: Yahoo! Listing [Order 393246XX]

Dear Yahoo! Express Client,

Yahoo! has reviewed the URL you submitted for expedited review

<url:http://www.example.com>

with Yahoo! Express order #393246XX. We're sorry to report
that we were unable to review your site today. We could not access the
URL you submitted, though we tried several times.

The Yahoo! Express Terms of Service state that in order to
be listed in the Yahoo! directory, a site must meet the following
minimum criteria:

"The site must be up and running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."

If you have questions, or would like to request a reconsideration
of this decision, please email us within thirty days by replying
to this message.

That listing was $299 a year. Took me 2 month to get in for my first ECom site. Kept the listing for a year and then dumped it due to less than 20 visits from that 'Directory'.

Then took me 4 month to get into DMOZ at the time.

That was 21 years ago...

There was no Actual FB, Tweeter-Shwither, etc...

Daaaam, all my hair is grey now....

[not2easy]

Don't feel bad, I keep getting "Comprehensive Performance Insights from Bing Webmaster Tools for site: http://example.com/ "

I received another of those today although it was long ago updated at Bing Webmaster Tools to the https: version. That's why I ignore them.

Besides, the 2011 site was closed and the domain put up for sale, all content was removed...