How many submissions to main site?

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How many submissions to main site?

born2drv

6:22 am on Aug 31, 2002 (gmt 0)

OK, let's say I have a site that sells all kinds of consumer electronics...

DVD players, MP3 players, Televisions, etc.

Other than being in the main category:
... > Consumer Electronics

Can I submit to all the other sub categories?
... > Consumer Electronics > DVD Players
... > Consumer Electronics > Stereo Equipment > MP3 Players
... > Consumer Electronics > Television

... etc .. if I am willing to pay $299 each and get a unique description (even thought the title/URL will be the same) ?

Thanks.

Helpmebe1

7:19 am on Aug 31, 2002 (gmt 0)

Born,
Unless they are subdomains, I dont believe you can do such a thing.. as far as I know, no... but perhaps someone knows otherwise..

ckern

5:59 am on Sep 4, 2002 (gmt 0)

As far as I know. Your web site can only be submitted to one category in Yahoo!, example, when you search for something in Yahoo and it displays the Category it is listed in, have you ever seen a site with like 2-5 *or more* categories? Nope! Find the category witht he best PR and also, where you might think you will get better search results from. Good Luck, and who knows, Yahoo might totally move your site to another Category, depends where your site fits into the Yahoo Directory exactly.

Jane_Doe

6:42 am on Sep 4, 2002 (gmt 0)

I have a health related site that has two pages with free Yahoo! listings. The pages are very different content pages on two unrelated health conditions.

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ckern

6:48 am on Sep 4, 2002 (gmt 0)

I think we should focus on the post by born2drv...

Where he notied that we was curious, if you could place the same "URL/TITLE" in various categories in Yahoo, and the answer is NO! Although, you could create different web sites for each various product, and then pay 300 for each product and its own personal page. Just a thought.

Jane_Doe

7:32 am on Sep 4, 2002 (gmt 0)

Where he notied that we was curious, if you could place the same "URL/TITLE" in various categories in Yahoo, and the answer is NO! Although, you could create different web sites for each various product, and then pay 300 for each product and its own personal page. Just a thought.

Do you mean he could create two different pages for different products within the same site? I think he knows he could submit two different sites.

My point in mentioning my site was that it was an example of the Yahoo editors approving more than one page from the same site, presumably because each page had unique content and titles.

born2drv

10:20 am on Sep 4, 2002 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the replies.

I haven't seen any other websites with more than 2 categories. But I see tons of spammy domains (obviously) :) I'd rather not have to submit those.

I have seen a very small # of sites with deeper pages listed, but from what I can tell they are very old listings and probably not done that way anymore... Like getting mysite.com/dvd ... mysite.com/tv ... etc, each with their own listings.

I guess one thing I could do if I really wanted, would be to make more domains as suggested but make them appear to be actual sites but still related to my "main site" or should I say "trademarkname" to keep the original site's brand... I have seen one site in my field take this approach..

he would register "trademarkname-keyword1-keyword2.com" and Yahoo gives him a title/description like:

Trademarkname: keyword1 keyword2 - offers keyword1 and keyword2
products.

The entire site is more or less copied content, and it's obvious that it is from the same company (since he put his trademark name in there). I guess that's the best way to get more listings. Too bad I can't ask first before I give them $300 :)

born2drv

9:31 am on Sep 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

please excuse my bumping this, but I want to know if anyone has any experience in making a site / listing like:

trademarkname-keyword1-keyword2.com

I'm hoping to get a listing like....

Title: Trademarkname: Keyword1 Keyword2
Desc: Offers Product1 and Product2 items for sale online

I would then mirror my main site, "trademarkname.com" but there would be no overlapping categories/products so it wouldn't be spam, right?

I could even go so far as to have my "trademark.com" site removed from yahoo and add several of these sub-domain sites up, with them mirroring a deeper page within the main site.

Does that make sense? :)