Picking the best Yahoo category for submitting...

With the new algo/display, it's harder

[Robert Charlton]

With the old Yahoo ranking/display system, you got sites listed in more or less best category order for submission for a search phrase. With the new system, ordered by site, it's not quite so easy... I can see printing out a lot of pages or taking a lot of notes. Anyone figured out an easy way to do this?

Also, I'm wondering if the new system suggests a de-emphasis on drill down....

[skibum]

So far, I think the analysis part is the same. The change hasn't been in place to see much movement of sites yet.

It seems like unless a site is REALLY geared towards a specific region (and they don't do business outside of that region) it is best to stay out of regional categories. A software company located in a particulr region should not go for a regional listing. A real estate site or car care business should go with regional.

[2_much]

It's not quite so easy anymore, but it doesn't appear to have changed extensively. I'm waiting for the next update to get a better impression of what Yahoo's doing.

In the meantime, I'd suggest checking the Category matches on top first, and then drilling down.

[seth_wilde]

Always choose the category closest to the root unless a deeper category includes your keyphrase....

[netcommr]

would anyone be interested in doing a test to see if results are the same for searches from different locations, such as diffferent results based upon isp location.