yahoo & free listings

uk elections

[tigger]

I've just finished building a site for a group involved loosely with the conservative party and the site content is to do with the elections in the UK in May, they want to get the site into Yahoo but we need to get in it quickly

Is the only real way to acheive this by paying, I know Yahoo offer free submission to none profit organisations, but if you go down the old route of submit and wait and wait or will as it's a none profit org, will they look at this as quickly as the paid route?

[Laisha]

I would give it a try using the free submission. If your deadline gets too close, I would then go for BizExpress.

[JamesR]

Before BizEx got big, i would submit to a free category, then wait about 4 weeks and send an email to [e-mail] and ask them if there was anything additionally I needed to do to get listed (very politely, and of course reminding them where I submitted and what the site was). i would wait another 4 weeks, send a similar email, being polite, and bingo, the site would list that week. Don't know if it would still work. The key is to absolutely not abuse this or make em mad, if you do, kiss your site goodbye.

[tedres]

Also, don't forget to submit to their Full Coverage news area. I don't think it's run quite the same way as the US version, but there is a direct email link to their editors - [e-mail]. (Found it at the bottom of the page at [uk.news.yahoo.com...] )

When the elections get more attention, they may develop a specific full coverage area with frequent updates and resources.

A listing in their news are doesn't automatically get a listing in the directory, but you might add a comment requesting info within your email as well.

ted

[tigger]

thanks for all the help and advice

tigger

[nicebloke]

Just for the record, I got the email today to let me know one of my sites made Yahoo via the free submit.

The site is an extension of a very well established merchant in the UK, and it took 11 months for this to happen.