Free Yahoo Search Submit

They have opened up their free search submit. Get up on it!

http://submit.search.yahoo.com/

Free, yes -- but will they ever get round to considering it!?

Anyone tried the free submit yet?

Considering it? I know it will be spidered....maybe only to "fill" the spots left over from the feeds and PPC's, but it cant hurt. This is just to help everyone out who does not want to pay to get into yahoo after the 15th of April.

I am just doing it as a test to see if I get any good positioning. If not, that I will be doing the feed or the PFI.

I think that the best way to get into yahoo is to leach off of others - just make sure you have lots of links and with any luck you'll be spidered.

Yes,

But if they do anything close to the past looksmart/msn relationship, which its very close to, the pfi listings will be what you see at the top and the free listings will just be used as "fill".

I wonder how long yahoo will do that for. If thats the case then there will be relatively few relevant listings.

Has anyone who's been listed in Yahoo noticed that its made a significant (or even noticable) difference in SERPS or PR? How about the amount of traffic it brings? Basically what I'm asking, is it worth the few hundred dollars every year?

The amount of traffic you get from Yahoo is something very important to look at. Looking through my tracking, some of my clients recieve a lot of traffic, and some do get a lot of sales and leads through Yahoo, while some do not. I will def submit some clients to this network, which not only includes Yahoo, but MSN also., but I will wait until find more information after this change happens(april 15th).

Hmmm,

you can try at http://www.websitesubmissionservice.cc

They guarantee Yahoo listing without a payment.
But you have to pay for the service....

Thats just another one of those "guarantee first page" positioning" companies. In this business, you can't guarantee any listing. Well maybe they can get you there using spamming, but then 6 months later your blacklisted...

The only was to get into Yahoo directory is to pay the $299.00 unless you were grandfathered. Maybe other ways (i use to be able to get into yahoo by going in through other Yahoo countries), but to get in quick, pay the money. To get into Yahoo Search, it is possible to get through with their free submit, but you never know when. I will just wait till the middle of April and see how things turn out before I make any big decisions.

What does grandfathered mean?

Either you submitted your site to them or they found you way back when it use to be free to be listed in the Yahoo directory.

I don't really see any traffic from yahoo. Still mostly from google.

How about you guys?

cheers vetofunk mate - i added a few of mine

It is not uncommon to see only a small percentage of traffic from Yahoo, because Google still brings in the most. When I track all my traffic and sales/leads, Yahoo is always 2nd to Google and MSN. For my clients anyway.