Yahoo Travel

Sites we like

[stuartmcdonald]

If you take a look in the Yahoo Trael section there is a section titled "Sites we Like".

Does anyone know how you get into that? Do you need to be in the Yahoo Directory to be considered? Do you need to pay?

I'm specifically not talking about the food and accommodation info (for one of the countries I'm curious about my wife wrote the content four years ago - I wonder if wcities made that clear to Yahoo when tey signed up for that stream of data!)

I've emailed Yahoo asking but received no reply.

Thanks in advance

[twebdonny]

ya right, there is one Travel Site Yahoo Likes

travel.yahoo.com

100,000 plus pages and growing

Serious competitors get lost, is our experience with
Yahoo.

[soapystar]

travel.yahoo.com

because they dont like sites with too many virtual names....or database driven template travel pulls....keyword stuffing....blah blah blah.....

how long till they start swapping links :-)

[dertyfern]

I have a site that's included for a particular destination. It's a small but very niche site and targets a very particular audience. If you operate sites that offer very broad and general topics, I doubt you'll get included.

[soapystar]

If you operate sites that offer very broad and general topics, I doubt you'll get included.

why? this is a search engine right? what has having a site thats general got to do with being indexed?

plus...define general.....!

[twebdonny]

small but very niche site

In other words, a site that does not offer any legitimate
competition for travel.yahoo.com?

[agerhart]

why? this is a search engine right?

No, actually. It is a portal. So, yes, they are a search engine, but they are also a competitior. Makes the lines a lot more blurry.

[dertyfern]

I just doubt that yahoo--outide of their serps--would want to recommend a site that would represent competition in any way. Yea, they are a seach engine, but the travel section is a business, not a search engine.

[soapystar]

yahoo is a portal but the search engine is one product on that portal. They are piggy backing as much commercial stuff as they can on that search engine but it is still claimed to be a free inclusion index. So as it was suggested that being a general site would mean its hard for you to be included i was hoping for an expansion of that thought process.

btw...did you spot the massive domain crosslinking at the bottom of the page....(and more virtual names)

[soapystar]

google shows 115,000 backlinks for link:travel.yahoo..yahoo shows 17 for the same search...and have you checked those backlinks...count those virtual domains with links from each page....yet they are dropping sites for the exact same thing...

[twebdonny]

travel.yahoo.com,

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