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Web Address (e.g., www.widgetdesigns.com)
Home Page or Web Address Forwarding
Email Account (e.g., myname@widgetdesigns.com)
Online Access to Your Account Management
They allow this page to be redirected to any site on the internet.
What value, if any, does this program have in terms of search placement? Is there any advantage in doing this first, then paying for a business listing, getting that page available on a search term so wehen someone accesses it it will redirect to my primary site? Or am I fishing in a dry pond?
I wouldn't know about any SEO value though. In fact, I'd bet it is undoubtiedly virtual hosting (multiple domains under the same ip address). That being the case, it would be pretty easy for other search engines to detect based upon the ip address. If you were Altavista, would you rank a site higher that is parked on Yahoo? It will be interesting to hear from any test cases.
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When an account is created on our servers, the domain name is set up to
be accessible with either of the following host names:
www.widgetdesigns.com
widgetdesigns.com
This way, visitors can access the site whether or not they type the
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Trina
Yahoo! Customer Care
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Hey, for $35 bucks a year including a domain name hosted on yahoo??
I've got to give it a go just to see what the hell I can do with it.
Actually, I registered my domain there and was thinking the same thing as you. Don't register there, I didn't get a listing..I just found myself switching hosting services and patiently waiting for INWW to take their sweet ass time processing my request.
Keep it real.
Graham Hurlburt
You don't understand what they are doing. Its not $35 a year for hosting too. For 35 bone a year they give you a dummy page that you put text into a form and it creates your page for you. In order to get a real site there, you need to upgrade to a website. Their fee is around 12.oo monthly, last time i checked, and its just bare minimum hosting options.
Also a nice blurb from the tos: [domains.yahoo.com...]
PLEASE NOTE: NOTHING IN THE AGREEMENT OBLIGATES YAHOO! TO LIST OR LINK TO YOUR DOMAIN NAME OR PROVIDE WEBSITE HOSTING SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR DOMAIN NAME BEYOND THAT PROVIDED WITHIN THE SERVICE.
Worked 2 domains and found a good boost in Google and Yahoo(dir results), and I believe a small boost at Looksmart/MSN. I don't know if it helped, but had good placements consistently on Ink partners.. MSN, Iwon, AOL, etc. No real effect seen at Excite, Fast, or Lycos, though DH never seemed right. Dmoz was never a problem, but Go downgraded(like that matter now). Altavista was the real story though, zip, zero, and sometimes less! Just to compare, 2-3000 uniques/pay each from Yahoo and Google but only about 15-20 from Altavista. Woldwide traffic was marginal(such as Yahoo.ca or Altavista.de), mainly from US based(.com).
Keep in mind these domains were sitting on the Yahoo store servers, st13.yahoo.com, and not this web hosting thing, but I thought it may be relevant... Fees payed were $300 US per month each which is a little higher then the $20 they offer here, but many people have paid a much bigger price for less traffic such as the 3 times I payed Excite for a dribble of traffic. Would I go this route again if I got back into SEO biz... in a heart beat. Would I go this route just for traffic reasons, never. They just don't offer the needed resources such as ftp or scripting. Though if your marketing something, this may be the way to go if their internal network ever speeds back up, response is getting slow...
