Submitting Subdomains to Yahoo

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Submitting Subdomains to Yahoo

dmoshe

6:26 am on Sep 30, 2001 (gmt 0)

Can Yahoo edit a title and if so what is it's criteria.
Will Yahoo accept any size domain name with a subdomain?
Is it true that Yahoo gives priority to search results in the order of: title and then description?
If so, can Yahoo stop a very long title?

agerhart

1:30 pm on Oct 1, 2001 (gmt 0)

Can Yahoo edit a title and if so what is it's criteria.

Yahoo can and will edit your title as they see fit....I am not sure what their criteria is, but I know that they will cut it if it is too long.

Is it true that Yahoo gives priority to search results in the order of: title and then description?

You are correct, it is a mix of the two.

If so, can Yahoo stop a very long title?
Yep.......bummer huh?

bufferzone

1:41 pm on Oct 1, 2001 (gmt 0)

The general answer is: Yahoo will do whatever Yahoo feels like, ask nobody and give no explanation as to anything or anybody.
IMHO it pays to have your site very ready before submitting.

- no HTML errors. use webmasterworld HTMLvalidator
- a realworld adress to a real person visible on uour site
- a privacy policy
- rich and original content

Lots more

Good luck
Kim

pete

1:47 pm on Oct 1, 2001 (gmt 0)

Regarding Yahoo! and titles, the criteria used to stipulate that the title should be the name of the business entity.

But, run through their result sets and see how many of the well listed sites conform to this!

dmoshe

9:24 pm on Oct 2, 2001 (gmt 0)

I wonder if Yahoo could edit a title if it is truly the legal dba of the company?
Does the web site have any affect on the Yahoo search results if it is different than the title?
Does Yahoo accept web sites that have subdomains?

agerhart

9:27 pm on Oct 2, 2001 (gmt 0)

Yahoo does accept websites that have sub-domains, and it can and will edit a title even if it is the name of the company....it happened to me.

Macguru

9:31 pm on Oct 2, 2001 (gmt 0)

Hi dmoshe,

Welcome to WmW, hope you like this place as most of us do.

the answers are

Yes. As soon you submit your site, they can legally do whathever they want with it.
not sure. Recent changes happened.
and Yes. As soon you provide sufficient quality content for each sub domains, (and your credit card pass) they will admit sub domains.