Yahoo! Express Members Short Changed

Or is Yahoo! really short changed in the long run?

[ckern]

Yahoo! sure did screw over all the Yahoo! Express subscibers. Kudos to all those doing well in Google. Because now you have your Google Traffic plus all of Yahoo!'s traffic.

What is wrong with Yahoo! Think about it, how many people will stop submitting sites to Yahoo, and paying $300 dollars annually. On a side note. Yahoo! is a Directory, ever since its creation, its founders started it off as a Directory of there favorite web pages.

Clearly a huge mistake for Yahoo leaving its roots as the worlds/internets largest Web Directory.

Some Facts:

Recently added to the Yahoo! Directory
· Tuesday Oct. 8 - 1032
· Monday Oct. 7 - 726
· Sunday Oct. 6 - 30
· Saturday Oct. 5 - 27
· Friday Oct. 4 - 736
· Thursday Oct. 3 - 671
· Wednesday Oct. 2 - 893
Source: [dir.yahoo.com...]

Just think at 300 dollars a pop/annually how much money is Yahoo going to lose? I know they are lossing my business if they keep this up.

Just some quick math, in the last week Yahoo! added 4,115 web sites to there directory at 300 dollars a piece. That is 1,234,500 dollars in one week. 1.2 Million Dollars! How long can they afford to neglect Yahoo! Express users.

[Pink_V]

Hello everyone. I'm new here, but not new in the business. I think one thing that has been largely (maybe legally?) overlooked is the double-standard by which Yahoo now operates. While they insist that commercial businesses pay $299 for a "review", they are not applying the review charge to all of their "default" results. I think it's abundantly clear that their directory alone is not what drives visitors to the sites, but rather the search results. I feel cheated because I am (and so many others!) being cheated. I paid for a review, but the listings from Google were not "reviewed", nor were they paid for, and that, if anything, would be just cause for legal action, if, in fact, there is any way around it. I'm not interested in pursuing it, but I do very much they would bring back their previous way of displaying search results. After last week, I am forced to lay off one employee this week, and possibly another in the next month or so. This really sucks...

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