Listing comes up in UK and CA results, but not US

Site only comes up as google results not directory results for US Yahoo

[visca]

After many unsuccessful attempts to submit my site to Yahoo US and Yahoo CA with the 'free submit' option, I figured 'why the heck not?' and tried Yahoo UK. Two weeks later I was accepted! Yee haaw! However now that it has propogated to all the directories, it is searchable in all the Yahoo geographical locations except for the US.

When in International sites and I search on the title of the site, it comes up as first result, and has the appropriate Yahoo category listed underneath the result. In the US Yahoo however, it comes up with this lame Google listing with a page it spidered off the main of my web site, not even the main page. However I go to the directory of the US Yahoo and the listing is sitting right there in the category!

One interesting point is that if I click that "search related pages" link below the Google listing of my site, it gives me a list of Google results spidered from my web site, and then at the very bottom of the search result page it FINALLY shows the Yahoo directory result of my web site. Why doesnt the directory result have priority over some spidered Google listings? If this is how it is going to stay, the traffic from the US site is going to be lame.

Whats going on? Anyone got any ideas on this one? Your comments would be appreciated.

[2_much]

Hey Visca, I think what you're seeing is a result of what we're not calling "Black Wednesday," the day that Google trashed it's directory in search of displaying Google's results. They've kept their directory but it's not very prominent and doesn't generate as much traffic anymore.

So in order to get a high amount of traffic from Yahoo, you now have to optimize for Google for your keywords.

This may change sometime in the future (what results Yahoo displays), but currently, it's almost straight Google.