Free submission to Yahoo?

[Felina]

Has anyone gotten a content site listed in Yahoo recently?
Any idea of how long the turnaround time was for it being listed?

[KevinC]

I got 2 canadian sites listed in the regional for free and it only took a couple weeks after submission. You can't submit for free to all catagories though.

[ExtremeExports]

I recently read about the Yahoo backdoor, enabling business to get to the free submission form. Has anyone tried this method. i have the site where you can do this, and have gotten to the free submission form for a commercial catagory, but haven't submitted yet. Anyone done it this way before?

[chameleon]

No, but I'll try it on a site I have if you send me the link. Then I'll tell you if it worked or not...

[ExtremeExports]

chameleon
I sent you a sticky mail with the url. The page will tell you exaclty how to do it. Let me know if it works! :-)

[martinibuster]

I've been trying it once every couple months since the beginning of this year. No luck.

[ExtremeExports]

i've heard of people getting their site listed this way (read it on the net) but I guess it's just a take a chance situation. I tried it last night, and have also received reqeusts from a few members for the site. Hopefully they will keep me posted if they get listed or not. And I will try that approach also. Try, try again.

[sem4u]

If you try too many times Yahoo may mark you up as a spammer and never list your site...

[martinibuster]

Certainly it's not recommended that you submit repeatedly. However, I understand that Yahoo dumps their "free listings" queue every couple of weeks.

So I believe you would have to submit it at least once a month.

[Travel]

I did get a content site in with a submission in the past five months and had one added unsolicited after. Personal sites- no travel :-)

[Laisha]

I've submitted 2 in the past three months. Both were accepted. The first one was listed in about 10 days, and the second in 6.

[crk_data]

Hi...

This is my first post here...
I just donno much about SEs and correct ways to submit...

ExtremeExports,

can I plz have this backdoor link to free yahoo submission?

and guys I have a strange case I wanna show you...

a site I know is submitted for free...and It always show as No.1 on Yahoo,google,altavista and alltheweb...

i saw the source code...
the keywords are huge in no....
each KW is repeated 30 times X 50 keywords...you can a have a full page full of keywords...!

and really the site is ranked always as the 1st site in results...could this be it?

Thank you

[2_much]

Hi crkdata, welcome to WebmasterWorld.

Most search engines have moved past giving too much importance to on-page criteria. The site you are referring to may have very high Page Rank or link popularity, ensuring its ranking success. I have some sites with low keyword density and others with very high keyword density that rank very well.

I wouldn't encourage you to follow what they're doing. Instead, read here, learn about how to rank, and build a site based on good content.

[martinibuster]

My post about not getting in for free was about an ecommerce site. I've gotten in several non-profit sites with relatively no prob.

[kevinpate]

> I've gotten in several non-profit sites with
> relatively no prob.

Hmmm, wish I had relatives at yahoo :)

I've not been able to get any part of my NFP site into their directory yet nor obtain a response as to why. I've been trying since early May. We do well via search returns there, but still, a directory spot would be nice.

[steveb]

I'm curious about the initial question for the US directory. Six weeks and nothing so far for me.

The other thing is they seem to update in bunches, like adding five sites for an obscure actor in one day. It's like somebody got around to that category that day, and the length of time in the overall Yahoo queue makes no difference.

[discomaniac]

I with kevinpate, I've been trying to get listined for about 15 months with no luck (site in profile) when I check with the experts they say that our site should be listed as well. Anybody know what we are doing wrong?

[DJWebWorks]

>I've not been able to get any part of my NFP site into their directory yet nor obtain a response as to why. I've >been trying since early May. We do well via search returns there, but still, a directory spot would be nice.

Only since May? Of this year? I've been trying to get a non-profit site listed since 1998 and it's never made it. I usually resubmit about once every six months or so with no luck. I feel like I've somehow been black listed there because I have submitted several sites since 1998 and not ONE has ever made it. And believe me, I'm very careful not to spam them.

I seem to have the same problem with DMOZ although it looks like the main issue there is that there has not been an editor in my category for a couple of years.

[martinibuster]

They dump their queue every couple weeks. If you submit toward the end of their cycle, then forget being listed.

I recommend submitting once every three or four weeks. A couple sites took a week to get in for free. One site took about three months.

[kevinpate]

Maybe that's it. Maybe I'm submitting at end of the cycle and it's never even been seen. After all, to know me is to love me,but if they never see me, how they gonna know me.

Sooo, any clues on when the first of the Yee-haw, umm, I mean Ya-hooooooo cycle might be, or is figuring that out every bit as convoluted as estimating a do-si-do over at Google?

[silinx]

I've had sites that have taken fours weeks and other that have taken three months and I have still others that have yet to be listed after nearly a year. (Yep, I'm thinking about resubmitting those right now...)

[KevinC]

I have had 2 canadian sites listed within a couple weeks and I only submitted once. I think if you really wanted to just get in you could put your site with a canadian host and that way you could sneek in the canadian directory. The sites I got listed were dot COM and not CA.

[quotations]

I have had three sites added free in the past year.

It seemed to take a long time and I only submitted each one once. Each if them was a surprise and I did not know until I started getting visitors from those directory pages.

[WebManager]

I submitted a site about astrophysics based on my Master's thesis and it was in Yahoo! in a couple of days. A shorter time than it took for my commercial site to be included for £XXX!

Don't write Yahoo! off - Google will be using them next...

[Bluestreak]

I've been submitting my site (once a month) to one of Yahoo's non-commercial categories for about a year now with absolutely no luck at all. However, after monitoring the category I've been submitting to, I noticed there have been no updates at all, at least since I've been submitting last year. Yahoo evidently has completely abandoned these categories. I found that interesting.

I guess the only option left now is to submit it in another category that is more active and has seen more frequent updates. The only problem is I'm not sure which category would best suit my site (non-profit). If anyone could offer suggestions on an appropriate category, please StickyMail me. My website is in my profile. Thanks!

I reached the point though where I've pretty much given up on Yahoo. They seem to want to abandon their directory listing altogetehr in the worst way.

[Finder]

I've submitted two content sites a couple of times in the last year. Neither one has gotten in.

[steveb]

It seems to me that a lot of the Yahoo editors spend their time on adding deeplinks in themes. I'm skeptical that some employee of the Internet Movie database sits around every day submitting three or four random pages which happen to get deeplinks the same day as another site or two on the actor/movie/whatever also gets listed.

[ExtremeExports]

I am not sure if I am allowed to type this url, but I have received so many requests for the Yahoo! backdoor I mentioned earlier in this thread, I thought it would benefit everyone if I posted it. :-)
Yahoo! Backdoor [joepetrow.com]

[ExtremeExports]

fyi the yahoo back door doesn't work anymore :( I'm still not listed!

[chris]

hello, i noticed today
my website go listed in commercial category yahoo.com
for free i was kind of suprised.

my website is fast loading not much graphic clean navigation
easy to navigate, no javascript or flash used, no .css either. yahoo wants to list website with unique content
and have fast loading website.

If you want to increase the chances of being listed i suggest, don't use javascript, flash, css