[ChicagoSilver]

I have a new business that I would love to have a link for in yahoo.com's directory. Does anybody know how to do this without paying any money?

Thanks for your help.

Jason Silver

[Onyx]

Sure. Just go to their site and click on the 'Suggest your site' link at the top of the category listings. Don't expect it to happen immediately though - it can often take weeks. Also consider adding it to the Open Directory Project

[ChicagoSilver]

Each time I do that, it talks about yahoo express and charging $299 to suggest a site. Any ideas?

[Onyx]

Sorry about that - didn't realise you had to pay!

Currently Yahoo gets its search results (and presumably the content for it's directory?) from Google, but that relationship will end soon. You can submit to Google for free, so that's worth doing anyway.

Can anyone else shed any light on listing in Yahoo directory?

[mgeri]

Hey,

Yahoo uses google for its main search, but I heard this is changing, but still submit your site to google for free.

I am not 100% sure, but doesnt yahoo use dmoz.org. I suggest you submit your site there aswell.

Regards,

[webconnoisseur]

Yahoo charges for many of the categories (mostly business-related) and won't allow free submissions. Yahoo no longer uses google and I don't believe it uses DMOZ.

You might want to hold on Yahoo to see how the search engine changes pan out (find out if Yahoo directory listings help or not), but Yahoo now owns Inktomi, so it may be worthwhile to pay for them to crawl your site. The other option is to let the search engines find you, by getting other people to link to you - this may be the best option if you are short on cash. You can always submit to google and alltheweb, plus some smaller engines (be careful though).

Good luck!

[thecardkid2001]

I think I read somewhere that Yahoo won't even consider listing a business site unless you pay to get listed. I could be wrong though.

[iKwak]

I hope the sites that are already located in Yahoo will remain there.

[Devox]

if you list in Dmoz you will be automatically listed in Google, Much more effective then a Yahoo listing as no one really uses it. Also list in all the directories you can.

[Onyx]

It's the third most used web resource, so wouldn't say no one uses it. I have to admit - I don't see why anyone uses it, but they do! DMOZ and Google are well worth listing on though!