Listed in Yahoo!?

[ATNO/TW]

May 29th, 2003, 5:52 am

Four of my clients and my own place rank high on the Google powered part. I used to have one of them in the directory, but it's not there anymore. It's getting harder and harder, it seems to find good search engines with good free placement options.

[Bigwebmaster]

May 29th, 2003, 12:33 pm

Yeah the google powered part comes directly from how google has ranked sites. So that really has nothing to do with the Yahoo directory itself. I used to have sites in the directory as well, but not anymore. Yahoo is slowly going downhill I think. They seem a bit favored to people who pay for listings, and that means they really aren't actively seeking the best sites on the internet for any given category. Money will always change someones business model though, and has the power to corrupt things.

May 29th, 2003, 3:26 pm

Bigwebmaster wrote:

Gadget Guru wrote:

According to the HTML standards, the last two of these tags don't need to be closed; the </TR> and </TD> tags are optional.

Serious? You got a link that proves this?

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/ ... l#h-11.2.5

about 25% down the page or so

[Bigwebmaster]

May 29th, 2003, 3:34 pm

interesting

May 29th, 2003, 6:39 pm

Strange, first time I've seen that.

W3 don't lie ...

May 29th, 2003, 6:42 pm

i had heard this a while back...not sure who told me and where, but I
brushed it off because I don't actually handwrite my code.

it is interesting, but makes good sense really. let the browser make
sense of your code. Not sure I agree with it though. Who knows...

[ATNO/TW]

May 29th, 2003, 7:56 pm

However, it is not corrrect for XHTML.

From the w3schools:

http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_html.asp

Quote:
The Most Important Differences:
XHTML elements must be properly nested
XHTML documents must be well-formed
Tag names must be in lowercase
All XHTML elements must be closed
EndQuote

[Bigwebmaster]

May 29th, 2003, 9:35 pm

Wow I have always wondered why I see this on source code of some sites:

Empty Elements Must also Be Closed
Empty elements must either have an end tag or the start tag must end with />.

This is wrong:

This is a break<br>
Here comes a horizontal rule:<hr>
Here's an image <img src="happy.gif" alt="Happy face">

This is correct:

This is a break<br />

Here comes a horizontal rule:<hr />Here's an image <img src="happy.gif" alt="Happy face" />

Now I finally know! I just got that from ATNO/TW. Thanks again, you keep having nice suprises of info here.

June 3rd, 2003, 10:52 pm

I just checked for my site and all of my main pages are showing up, I searched for "gravestone archives" and it came up with my award page as #1 and if you click "similar pages" all the other ones pop up on a list.

I am not sure if this is due to the google part of Yahoo or not I'll let you be the judge.

RBeau

[Bigwebmaster]

June 4th, 2003, 12:19 am

Yeah that is the google part of Yahoo.

June 4th, 2003, 10:30 pm

pretty muche veryone uses google in some capacity now, huh? seems
like it anyway

July 1st, 2003, 6:33 pm

Not as much people use Yahoo!'s Search then Google's. Google lists every site basically, easy deal.

July 27th, 2003, 3:15 pm

Woo! My Warcraft III clan comes up as number the number one result for rebel horde! Now if only my clan was active I'd be getting hits...

August 11th, 2003, 11:32 pm

ok well yahoo are no longer accepting free website submissions as they used to.

My suggestion would be to register your site with http://www.dmoz.com who are a people powered search engine. They supply all the major and non major search engines with their listings. Make sure you know what is the best category to put your site in, as if you enter it somewhere it doesnt belong it will either be rejected or take longer to process.

I submit sites all the time I have made and I find with most sections it takes a nominal amount of time to be listed.

Hope thats of some help!

August 27th, 2003, 7:36 pm

yes i do, i dident pay anything. just type small sports or smallsports and its the second one from the top