Regional Listing

[cyberbear]

Does anyone know if Yahoo is still accepting free submission of sites into the Regional categories? Commercial sites that is? They were up until the time recently when the submission was offline for a few days and now I am not sure. Thanks.

[Brett_Tabke]

Howdy cyberbear. I believe anything commercial must go biz express - even in the regional listings.

[cyberbear]

Howdy Brett

This is way it seems now since the submission link has gone back online. They are saying all commercial must be biz express but they have said this before and still they accepted 2 of my free listings in the last 4 months. I will keep trying for the free regional listings as I have faith. I must keep the faith. I will let you know if I have any luck. Thanks.

[2_much]

Hi Cyberbear,

I was wondering about that myself, but haven't tested yet. Please keep us posted.

Thanks!

[JeremyL]

No, I just got my company (yes it's business/ecommerce related) listed in a regional cat for free. Even better, a few days later, I was also listed in three other cats. They included the metro area, complete listing for the state and even the normal non regional cat which normally has to be paid for. So it basically turned out to be a back door into a pay only cat for me.

Hey I'm not complaining. This is one of the most competative businesses on the web today. :)

[Robert Charlton]

The way directories work is that if there are inquiries for which there's no content, they'll prioritize additions to the right category to fill that gap. I'm wondering whether the free additions were in relatively empty categories, or whether they were in categories in which there were a lot of listings.

One of the reasons for Biz Express is that when a category is full enough that directory queries are satisfied, the editors move on to work on other categories. Without Biz Express, conceivably they might not get back to the full categories for a year or so. Biz Express puts some editors adding whatever listings are submitted.

So, it might make sense that regional categories that are empty might get filled for free. Is this what happened?

[JeremyL]

No, this is not what happened at all. The regional cat's I were added to weren't overflowing but they weren't emtpy. This site is web hosting related so every cat it was added to had plenty and the normal non regional cat it was added to is so stuffed it had to go into one of those alpha cats (you know the 0-9¦a¦b¦...¦z things).

[mivox]

It's my understanding that BizEx is only required for the "top level" Business & Economy categories... a locally oriented commercial site can be submitted to a regional category, full or not, for free, and will often receive a 'secondary' top level listing as well.

Directly from Yahoo:

If you are suggesting your business site somewhere within our main commercial categories, you will see a link to the fee-based Yahoo! Express submission process

The Yahoo! Express program is required to submit commercial sites to "Business and Economy/Business to Business" or "Business and Economy/Shopping and Services," and is an option elsewhere in the directory.

[JeremyL]

Well there might be someone from Yahoo reading this thread because as of tadey, about half of the listings in the web site hosting section alpha cats are gone including mine. It's still in the regional cat just not the normal one. I went through all the alpha cats from a-z and they are all about half the size they were just yesterday. Maybe they fixed a bug that added the listings to the cats when you got into regional.

[mivox]

They might have just decided to trim the size of their alphabetical listings...

I'd imagine the topical cats are more popular with general searchers anyway. If you were searching for a new web host, would you look for something like web hosting>virtual hosting>web hosts>apache or would you search in web hosting>a-z>a and then a-z>b, etc., etc...

I can't imagine many people using the alphabetical listing cats, unless they were searching for a specific company... in which case they'd be better off doing a keyword search by company name anyway.

[JeremyL]

Actually the number of people coming from each cat was almost identical. Oh well, I shouldn't be complaining, at least I have a listing. I would go ahead and do the biz express to get it back in the main cat but I am afraid if I do that they will reject it due to the fact it's already in the regional cat and Ill be out the money. It says in the biz express rules that you shouldn't have a listing anywhere in yahoo to get accepted :(

[mivox]

You could always try emailing someone there and asking... they may not bother answering, but you never know.

[JeremyL]

Well it looks like the converted back to the old database for those cats and they are back to the normal packed size and I'm back in :)

Definitaly a bunch of stuff going on at yahoo right now. I have been seeing all kinds of changes.

[Horasz]

Hi,

Sorry if my question is stupid...:)
So i've a client, a small travel agency in HUngary. I wanna submitt them in regional categories. The category:
"Regional/Countries/Hungary/Counties and Regions/Budapest/
Business and Shopping/Shopping and Services/Travel"
Is it bizex sumittion or not?

Thanks for your help,

Horasz

[Rumbas]

If you have the language to support it why not submit to their regional SITE - eg. [dk.yahoo.com?...]
It's free and they do not receive that many submission as Yahoo.com so it should be a bit quicker.

[Horasz]

The problem is Yahoo not in Hungary, yet.
So hungarian customers use to going to Yahoo.com. I survey shows yahoo.com has 180.000 unique user/day from Hungary, out of the 1.170.000 hungarian who is online. So yahoo is important for us.

Horasz

[ArturX]

Hi,

I am promoting a travel agency in Prague, Czech Republic and (unlike Horasz) I am sure that it is always worth to spend the $199 on Biz Express, even if you have the free option.

I have to solve different problem: when I want to suggest website via BizEx, I can't find my client's country - Czech Republic - in the country listbox (even if other central european countries like Hungary or Poland are listed). I tried to ask Yahoo! a week ago, but I don't expect reply anymore. Anybody experienced with such a problem?

thanks

Artur

[TallTroll]

Wow!!! I just had notification from Y!.co.uk that a site I submitted (free submission for a commercial site, no less) was in, both .co.uk, and the main Y! dbase!

I only submitted it last Thursday. It did go into a very specialised cat, without much content though. I guess it really does make a difference.

I'm impressed though, I thought it'd be weeks

[Horasz]

ArthurX,

Well, i'm sure it is worthy to pay 199$ to Yahoo, just my client not sure about it...:(
You know....customres sometimes a little bit slow.

Horasz

[JamesR]

arthurX, check here:

[dir.yahoo.com...]

[ArturX]

I already have selected the right Czech category for my clien't web site, I have other problem:

I want to suggest the web site via BizEx
-> confirm all the check boxes
-> fill in the web site details
-> fill in the credit card information and billing address. There are two listboxes for country selection - and the Czech Republic is not listed :-(