acceptable URL question

[scorpion]

When submitting an express listing to Yahoo can your URL be other than top level? I.e. is this acceptable?

"http://www.mysite.com/sitemain/entry.php" or does Yahoo only list top-level, i.e. you must submit "http://www.mysite.com"

Thanks.

[jamesyap]

You can submit any URL you want, there are no different between submiting

[yourname.com...]

and

[yourname.com...]

But if you do already have site listed in yahoo directory, make sure the 2nd you submit do have different contents. But express listing ain't popular nowadays and I have never heard yahoo reject any express listing inclusion.

All the best to you. :)

[agerhart]

I am going to have to disagree with jamesyap.

Based on my experiences and reading, Yahoo! prefers to list the root of the site. If your site is not already listed in Yahoo!, and you submit the deeper directory of the site, I think in most cases they would list the root and not the sub-directory of the site.

If your site is already listed in Yahoo!, then they will say that the section you are submitting is accessible from the root listing that already exists.

[scorpion]

what if the root is not your website, but only the subdirectory? That wouldn't be fair, since you paid the fee right?

[agerhart]

That sounds like a different situation, which you may want to try and explain to the editors in the "Additional Comments" within the submission form.

[scorpion]

thanks, also I can forsee a potential contract problem here. When you submit [abc.com...] and click ok after giving your CC, the contract would be for listing that particular URL resource, not the root. If the root does not meet the content requirements, and they reject it, legally wouldn't you have a case that they did not review the resource in question, but rather another page? It's like you pay to review X and they review Y...