Yahoo Rejected?

[iam david lee]

Hi
I laucnched a new website. The website basically lists properties in the UK. Anyone who wants to list propertise in our site can register and after verification they can start adding there properties to our site.

So far we have 18 registerations. In addition the website contains lot of information for people who are adding the property and searching for properties. Basically I have lot of content on the site.

I decided I will try and register with Yahoo UK and paid £199 yesterday. Today I got an email saying that they have rejected my submission. The reason they have given for rejection was that they searched for properties in New York and Dublin and it didn't return any properties. And they search for London and there was only one Property. They say I must have atleast few propertise in all major cities.

They say I must fill the database with propertise then register. The site takes new registerations online, so for people to find the site and register propertise, it must be on search engines. I submitted to Yahoo UK because my site was UK based and I dont know why they searched for New York.

They said I dont have enough propertise but I have 18 properties so far across UK and I am getting new registerations every day.

What do you think I should do? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

David

[Shak]

David,

perfectly valid reason to reject your site in my opinion.

sites similar to yours have 100s or possibly 1000s of listings, so maybe once you have 100 or so listings, then they would have added you.

I would have advised you to spend the £200 on targeted PPC instead.

Shak

[caine]

David,

Is your marketplace regionally based in the UK. Personally i would re-look at your site, and question why a hand-edited submission allowed the editor too think that they should be drawing terms for cities in other countries.

Oh btw, You're certainly not the first to get knocked back by Y! Would suggest having a good look at your site!

[iam david lee]

Thanks for the replies..

In order for me to get 100s or 1000s of listing I have to be on search engines right.

In the site it clearly says search for propertise across UK and I submitted to Yahoo UK.

I have emailed them and I am waiting for a reply.

[cornwall]

If you get spidered by Google, have a DMOZ entry (and throw in JoeAnt and GoGuides for good measure) then you should get most other listings following on.

A site I launced last month is now on Google and Dmoz, if I go to Yahoo and seach then it comes up (OK its not in the Yahoo directory, but that does not concern me as traffic from that tends, for my niche, to be small)

So bite the bullet and put up with the problems of submitting, and try DMOZ submission. Get a decent link to make sure Google spiders you... and you are up and running

[2_much]

Hi David Lee,

There's a good possibility that a listing in Yahoo won't produce the kind of traffic you need.

You really need to submit it to Dmoz and get quite a number of links to your site. This will help you rank in Google. The traffic, and registrations, will roll in from there because your site will appear in both Google and Yahoo. At that point, you could re-consider the Yahoo listing.

Your other option is to populate your site with bogus listings and appeal the submission so you don't lose your money.

[percentages]

iam david lee,

I had exactly the same problem as you with a real estate site in the US 3 years ago, back in the days when the Yahoo Directory was free.

They complained the site had insufficient listings to justify its inclusion. I waited 3 months and then submitted again when the site had a few hundred listings from alternative sources....this time they listed it for free, and it remains free today.

As of this point in time that site & company has grown to be the second largest real estate company in the geographic area where it operates.

Yahoo editors are a short sighted bunch of a$$e$. By refusing to list sites that are potential industry leaders they are simply cutting off their own noses to spite their own faces.

The traffic generated from the Yahoo! directory today represents less than 1% of all SE referrals.

If I had to pay today I would tell them where they can stick their subscription fee!

[joe_561]

david, I would put up a bunch of bogus properties just long enough to get approved. I have done this type of thing myself. Once in the directory they don't seem to care what you do.

[curryrivel]

iam david lee

Send me a sticky, I also promote a UK Estate Agency. I can probably supply you with a few UK properties to fill out your DB.

[iam david lee]

Hi

Thanks for the replies.

Really appreciate the help.

The DB is getting filled slowly. So it should be fine before they review in a month..

Thanks
David

[HyperGeek]

I would definitely throw in about 100 or so fakies, flag them in the DB table for easy removal as I add them, and then re-review.

Next time, keep in mind that before listing a site in yahoo! it must be a complete site. Complete in every respect (including an address and phone # at the bottom of the front page indicia).

[HyperGeek]

Send me a sticky, I also promote a UK Estate Agency. I can probably supply you with a few UK properties to fill out your DB.

Sniff, sniff, do I smell a link partnership? ;)