How to get listed in different regional directories?

google.cl; google.com.ar; yahoo.es; ar.yahoo etc

[silverbytes]

Is there a decent way of being listed in different regional directories? I'm offering internet services so my office is in southamerica, but I'm trying to reach other countries... I wonder if:

submitting to ar.yahoo; es.yahoo; etc is 'spamming'

and B) if not, is there any way to reach those listings easily?

Experiences?
thanks!

[choster]

It appears that the Google directories you mentioned are all based on the ODP RDF, specifically the subset representing dmoz.org/World/Espaņol/ . Multiple submissions to the Spanish version of the Google Directory are therefore counterproductive in precisely the same ways that multiple submissions to the English version are counterproductive.

[heini]

>submitting to ar.yahoo; es.yahoo; etc is 'spamming'

No it's not. If you offer services for different countries you are welcome to submit to directories dedicated to those countries. If the directories list you or not is up to them.

>and B) if not, is there any way to reach those listings easily?
Pay. 299 $ or Euro is always a convincing argument.

With Google directory it's of course a different story. It's ODP - ODP has under world cats for all countries. Study the guidelines/descritptions of the cats and see if you think your site is qualified for listings in more than one countries cat.

[John_Caius]

In terms of the World section (for sites in languages other than English), a site is allowed a listing in any language category where it has significant content in that language.

For the Regional section (English language but location specific), generally speaking it works as follows. If you are based in France then you may be listed in Regional/Europe/France. If you are based in Germany then you may be listed in Regional/Europe/Germany. If you have significant business interests in both countries then you would most likely be listed once in Regional/Europe rather than both Regional/Europe/France and Regional/Europe/Germany.

[heini]

John, the Regional/Europe cats are not very well developed though. I'd love to see that area to grow and get some drive, but for now I don't see it as a good strong alternative/supplement to the country cats.

[John_Caius]

Sorry, my point was that the guidelines for listing in Regional and World are different - we don't choose arbitrarily whether to list a site in one or the other.

If you are an English language site about France then you can be listed in Regional/Europe/France but you can't be listed in World/Francais.

If you are a French language site about anything then you can only be listed in World/Francais, not in Regional/Europe/France which is for English language content only.

If you have both English and French content then you are entitled to the same listings as any other English language site (i.e. one topical, one regional if you conform to all the required guidelines) plus a listing in World/Francais.

[heini]

My bad, John, wasn't really clear on the difference. Thinking about it it occurrs to me my misinterpretation of what the Europe cat under Regional is about stems from my wish to have a Europe cat under World.

With the growing reality of a unified Europe such a cat seems appropriate and necessary. But that's certainly a different debate than what this thread is about.

[John_Caius]

Since World is for sites in languages other than English, World is categorised by language rather than place. Within a language category, there may then also be subdivisions by country for sites about that country in that language. So for example, regionally-specific sites in Spanish are found under:

[ch.dmoz.org...]

with the first group as the countries with Spanish as their native language, hence with a large number of websites, and the second group for sites about anywhere in the world but written in Spanish.

For this reason there isn't a World/Europe category because there are many different languages spoken in that region. There's Regional/Europe for English language sites, World/Espa%f1ol/Pa%edses/Europa for Spanish language sites, World/Fran%e7ais/R%e9gional/Europe/ for French language sites etc.