Yahoo by far is the biggest search engine and is visited regularly by more than 40% of the internet users. A listing in Yahoo could boost your site traffic 10 fold. By now you may have realized how tough it is to get your listing in Yahoo. Unlike many other search engines that are robot based and your submission gets listed automatically, Yahoo is 100% human operated directory, where actual humans will look at the submissions to decide if your site is worth listing. On top of all that Yahoo does not even look at the majority of submissions because they are understaffed. Yahoo has only 300,000 sites listed, where search engines such as AltaVista or HotBot have more than 100 million sites listed. Yahoo has some very tough criteria for accepting sites. Here are some do's and don'ts to make sure your site gets in Yahoo: 1 - Follow all their instructions carefully and read information at the following pages before submission. How to suggest a site: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/ Finding appropriate category: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/appropriate.html 2 - Find the correct category where your site should be listed and do not submit to any unrelated categories. 3 - For page TITLE only submit your business name or if it's a non-commercial site, your actual site TITLE. Do not add anything extra after the TITLE. 4 - When providing a description, be very brief. Do not repeat anything in the TITLE. Do not use marketing slogans such as, "We're Number One,". 5 - Make sure you do not have any pages under construction, that your site is fully functional and all the links work. 6 - Make sure your business address, phone number and email is easily accessible on your page. 7 - If you don't have an ABOUT PAGE or a section about your business or who you are, create one. 8 - Make sure your site looks professional and does not use low quality images or very large slow images. 9 - If your site sells any products or services make sure to have an online ordering mechanism such as a secure order form or secure shopping cart system. 10 - If your site is a personal page or non-commercial, make sure to have unique content that is worth while or interesting and cannot be found anywhere else. 11 - Make sure your site is up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 12 - Make sure your site supports multiple browsers and capabilities. (For example, java only sites will not be listed). 13 - Your site must be in the English language 14 - Make sure your site does not already appear in Yahoo 15 - Submit every 3 weeks until you get in 16 - Pray! If you still can't get in Yahoo, you might want to consider Yahoo's express submission for businesses, which costs $200. With this option Yahoo will guarantee that they will look at your submission within a week, but will not guarantee that your site will get in. If your site is not accepted, they will send you an email explaining why and give you a second chance to fix any problems that you have.
ah.. tetep aja gak seberapa kalo di bandingin hasil dari google mas. memang ada juga sih yang dateng dari yahoo, tapi gak sebegitu gedenya sampai 40% dari internet users? no man! mungkin mereka dateng, tapi bukan buat search engine-nya, paling biat email atau chat dsb kalo google kan jelas, masuk udah pasti buat SE. lagipula, posisi di google & yahoo udah bagus tuh
