No listing yet,,,

[legster]

I paid for my listing exactly 10 business days ago. They say that in 7 business days it will be reviewed. I have not gotten anything back from them. I check Yahoo about 5 times a day, and I am still not listed. Anyone else have this problem? What's the best way to handle this?

[2_much]

Hi Legster,

We've never had that problem before, Yahoo's usually very prompt to reply when it comes to paid submissions. However, since might be a bit awry there since they laid off 400 employees.
Give it a couple more days and if you don't receive an email from them, then try emailing them. Send me a sticky mail and I'll give you an email address to use.

[legster]

Great thanks.

Never had that problem? Geez, just my luck! Tomorrow makes two weeks, so I hope to hear something soon. If not I'll drop you a note. Thanks.

I just submitted another site for my company the other day too, so it will be interesting to see how that does.

[skibum]

Seems like this could spell refund (Yea right!:) ). While YAHOO! doesn't guarentee much of anything but they do "guarentee" a review within 7 days. The one thing that might result in not hearing anything, would be a typo in the contact Email address. Hope that was double checked.

[legster]

Well they added me almost exactly 10 business days to the minute!

I have no complaints though! I have gotten more hits over the weekend from Yahoo than I have gotten all year from most engines! I got so many hits from Yahoo over the weekend, that I can no longer keep track of what other engines are sending me traffic, because the Yahoo listing keeps spamming my logs! I love it! I can't even buy this much traffic on Goto. :)

[2_much]

That's great legster, congrats!

Now you can start tracking the keywords and user behavior so you can tweak and optimize the site!

[legster]

Thanks.

However, how do I track keywords from Yahoo?

I do track the keywords submitted from all the search engines. However, under my search engine lists it only says:
[dir.yahoo.com...]

Then in the keyword area it shows nothing.

[2_much]

That's because people are finding you by following the directory links, not as a result of typing in a keyword query.
So your next step would be to optimize the site so it appears under the keyword search for your primary keyword.

[skibum]

>>So your next step would be to optimize the site so it appears under the keyword search for your primary keyword.<<

That would help for YAHOOGLE, but if I'm not mistaken the only way to further optimize a listing in the Web sites section is to change the description, which is unlkely.

After about a week, the "new" designation goes away and traffic often drops down significantly. Starting with a C won't drop it down to far on the cat page thogh.