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Listing in Yahoo Category one or two

[raja4]

I was under impression that I can add my site to 2 categories. I placed an order on Monday morning and my application was approved on Tuesday morning. The editor was very nice to accept most part of my description.

But I can see my site added to only one category which I selected while placing the order. There is one more category, which may be useful for us. Should I place another order or write the editor back to add us to other category as well?

I appreciate all the guidence I received from you guys. I learned on this forum and I am pretty sure we will get damn good business because of this wonderful listing.

I think it does not give you the option of selecting 2 categories while placing the order.

[JamesR]

I don't really understand why exactly they do that either. I have heard of some sites getting into more than one but I feel the editor would really have to think it benefitted both. I have only heard of this with a business and a regional category though. You are with the vast majority if you only made it into one category.

[NFFC]

>does not give you the option of selecting 2 categories while placing the order

You can use the additional comments box for a short a sweet pitch for an additional cat.

[Macguru]

>You can use the additional comments box for a short a sweet pitch for an additional cat

A try not to make it sound too much as it's in your interest. Put the user interest in value.

I would be surprised they list you on 2 categories on Yahoo BizEx. We did some big portal once with a lot of 3rd level subdomain (keyword1.domain.ca, keyword2.domain.ca, keyword3.domain.ca etc.) we had to pay for all.

Raja4, an you please keep us informed?

[raja4]

I got listing in just one category but my listing is damn good. I am getting really good traffic. If traffic and orders kept on coming like this I will make around $1500-2000 with just $199 investment. I am relly very happy with Yahoo. I did not ask them for another listing because I was afarid of moving me in another category which is below the current category. Thanks Yahoo and you guys :)

[agerhart]

I am relly very happy with Yahoo. I did not ask them for another listing because I was afarid of moving me in another category which is below the current category. Thanks Yahoo and you guys

I hear ya Raja4....I am loving Yahoo right now, and don't want to disturb the flow

[jason4656]

on this same subject I have a site that has been payed for and is in yahoo for a long time with poor results, I would like to change its position and also register it in many different categories namely regional ones cos it has sevices available in many different regions in the world. A competitor has 73 different results listed when we type in their url to yahoo all different regional categories all the urls come from the same domain. Our site is over 1000 pages and I could submit multiple urls different ones for each regional category and the company is willing to pay however im just interested in the best way to go about it
many thanks for any help
jason

[2_much]

Hi Jason,

You could try emailing the editor that initially accepted your site to request a change of category.

As to the your regional pages, this may be tough. We've had some people that have been successful at this, while others haven't. It depends on the editor that receives your submission.

My suggestion would be to submit just one of your regional pages to it's appropriate category to see what happens. If it gets denied, you'll have a chance to appeal. In the appeal, you could state to the editor how your site is regional and it's of benefit for Yahoo's users for your site to be listed in this category. Depending on the outcome of this, then you can determine your next step.

Hope this helps!