So you want to apply to Yahoo. Assuming you are not already listed in the index your first step is to find the category page that best suits your site. At the very bottom of this category page will be a small "Suggest a Site" link. Click on it to get to the site submission page. If there is no "Suggest a Site" link, then the page you are on does not allow listings to be added to it, most likely because it is a very general top-level page. Keep searching until you find your right niche category! When searching for your niche category, try to find one that reduces your chances of being buried alive by other site listings. This usually means a very specific category and the more specific you are, the more kindly Yahoo will be when it comes to listing your site.
Follow Yahoo's instructions or else! If you try to sneak around their rules they will ban you. Don't try to break the rules by doing things like using numbers, too much gratuitous promotional language or brand names in your descriptions. This is one situation where too much SEO in your copy can really hurt you.
This might seem odd, especially in a business that seems to be all about promoting yourself but Yahoo will frown on any title and description that reads like promotional ad copy. What Yahoo wants is a descriptive title and description without any hype (and this includes phrases such as 'the best real estate agent in town" and "unrivalled service"
Also you improve your chances of acceptance if you can keep your meta tag description to about 15-20 words. You might as well edit it down now before Yahoo does it for you!
As Yahoo lists its sites alphabetically, it might also benefit you to choose a name that is among the first five or six letters in the alphabet. If you can come up with a suitable title for your site that starts with A, B or C then make sure you use it as it will rank you higher in the Yahoo search engine pages!
Related Articles
Seo - Crafting Keyword Enriched Pay Per Click Ads
By: Chris Angus | 22/12/2006 | Internet
If you are trying to craft a clever title for a pay per click ad one of the simplest ways to get people's attention is to use a keyword search engine inventory tools such as the ones offered for free by Overture or Google. The title of your pay per...
Seo - Using The Google Alert Tool
By: Chris Angus | 30/12/2006 | Internet
The Google Alert Tool is actually a gadget that can be used for the purposes of search engine optimization (SEO). This tool allows you to fill in perimeters on a form so you can keep your eye on new entries that make it into the top 50 on Google. You...
SEO - What Do Spider Engines Look For
By: Chris Angus | 05/01/2007 | Internet
Things have changed since the early days of search engine optimization when all that was required was for the webmaster to simply submit the site along with metatags attached to keywords and well worded accurate descriptions of the content of its pages. However years of abuse of the system by...
Seo - Page Design That Is Bad Seo
By: Chris Angus | 09/01/2007 | Internet
One of the main principles of making profits from search engine optimization techniques is to make your site as "user friendly as possible." The more well thought out that your web site pages are in these little ways, the more functional they will be considered to be by both people...
Seo - What Is Spamdexing?
By: Chris Angus | 14/01/2007 | Internet
Spamdexing (a buzz word that is a combination of both spamming and indexing) is a term that means search engine spamming. Spamdexing or search engine spamming refers to the practice of intentionally creating web pages which will be indexed by search engines in order to increase the chance of a...
Seo - Should You Outsource Your Seo Articles To India?
By: Chris Angus | 17/01/2007 | Internet
Outsourcing dominates the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) copywriting business simply because writing bulk articles is the nature of the business. There is a big demand for multiple articles to be submitted to search engines as portal pages as well to ezine article directories and blogs. When you have a big...
SEO - Marketing Plr With SEO
By: Chris Angus | 23/01/2007 | Internet
If you are thinking of getting into marketing products on the Internet, PLR (public label rights) is one of the easiest ways to go. However it is downloadable informational products that are all rage and offer you the most profit for the least amount of investment. There are currently thousands...
Seo - Copyright Issues - What You Need To Know
By: Chris Angus | 29/01/2007 | Internet
The minute you upload something online you become a publisher. As an online publisher it is your responsibility to know a little bit about copyright law. This book is not a legal guide however here are some of the basic things that you need to know about blogging on the...
Latest Internet Articles
Use Blogs to Increase Website Traffic
By: Adam Maxwell | 24/07/2008
It's often said that using a blog is a great way to increase website traffic, and there's a reason it's often said - it's true! However, it's also possible to use other people's blogs to get more traffic, and here are three ways...
The first way is to leave comments on...
Is it Worth Paying For Traffic?
By: Adam Maxwell | 24/07/2008
There are so many different ways of generating traffic that some people get overwhelmed by the choices, and get tempted by paying for traffic, but is this increased traffic worth the price..?
It may not sound very helpful to say 'sometimes', but in truth there are a lot of variables.
It depends...
E-book Mania Can be Easy Profits for You
By: Bob and Cindy Floyd | 24/07/2008
Many online home businesses are created by the sale of a simple e-book. The popularity of the e-book has increased in the "I want it now" society that is in love with the idea of getting their desired information immediately. Not have to wait for something to be shipped to you is quickly becoming the desire method for most internet information shoppers.
Benefits of Article Marketing- #4 Social Bookmarking and Blogging
By: Jeff Schuman | 24/07/2008
No article marketing discussion today can leave out blogging and social bookmarking. You can benefit both from increased traffic and search engine bait from bookmarking your articles to relevant social directories.
Free Ways to Identify a Profitable Market Niche
By: Martin Malden | 24/07/2008
3 steps you can undertake, easily and without spending any money, to identify a profitable market niche for your Internet or Affiliate Marketing business.
Can You Cheat the Search Engines to Get More Website Traffic?
By: Adam Maxwell | 24/07/2008
The idea of cheating search engines for more web traffic is as old as the search engines themselves.
No surprise there, but it's worth looking at how and why people do it, to see if it's worth the effort...
When search engines go about ranking how they display their search results, they...
Go Offline to Increase Website Traffic
By: Adam Maxwell | 24/07/2008
That may sound contradictory, to go offline when you want to increase website traffic, because surely you want to always be online to promote website business, right..?
Wrong.
Of course you would love to have a flood of traffic coming to your site from online generation, and this is obviously never to...
How to Start and Expand Your Personal Network
By: Phil Evans | 24/07/2008
This is about discovering and using the most important of all the basic network marketing strategies. If you know anything about network marketing you know that the success of your business falls solely on only one network marketing strategy: Prospecting.
More from Chris Angus
SEO - Are Gateway Or Doorway Pages Necessary?
By: Chris Angus | 27/06/2007 | Internet
As a general rule, most sites do not need to be enhanced with gateway or doorway pages. This is because a good web site will naturally contain content that uses relevant keyword phrases that potential customers will relate to. This is the same language that will be typed into a...
SEO Web Design For Text
By: Chris Angus | 27/06/2007 | Internet
It is well known that the best way to search engine optimize a website in terms of its design is to keep it as free as of many bells and whistles as possible (including images, banners and graphics.) However once you have some excellent copy to put on the front...
Seo - Pagerank And Link Popularity Are Not The Same Thing.
By: Chris Angus | 05/04/2007 | Internet
A definition of both P It's important to note that Google PageRank is not the same thing as link popularity.
Two concepts that are commonly confused when it comes to search engine optimization are page rank and link popularity. Page rank focuses only on the quantity and popularity of your links...
Enhancing Meta Tags May Not Enhance SEO
By: Chris Angus | 05/04/2007 | Internet
A discussion of why enhancing meta tags simply does not always work as an effective form of search engine optimization for some sites.
One thing that is very puzzling to both expert and novice SEO marketers alike is the fact that adding meta-tags to a site may not always work. This...
Seo - Dealing With Search Engine Algorithms
By: Chris Angus | 05/04/2007 | Internet
A discussion of search engine algorithms and how different search engines use different formulas to determine page rankings.
One of the most frustrating aspects of search engine optimization is that the formulas that determine it do indeed change. There is also no one single formula for "beating the system" that works...
Seo Is A Never Ending Job
By: Chris Angus | 05/04/2007 | Internet
A discussion of the evolution of SEO and why it is important to practice eternal vigilance of the search engine optimization that is on your site so that it is always effective.
If you have been following the SEO business at all or are even just a little bit interested in...
SEO - How To Optimize Your Site Navigation
By: Chris Angus | 24/03/2007 | Internet
Discussions of the techniques that can be used to search engine optimize your site navigation so you can make more money from programs like Google Adsense.
Sometimes you have optimized your website with high-paying keywords (for a program like Google Adsense) but you can't seem to get any one to visit...
SEO - How To Calculate The Bandwidth And Disk Space For Your Website
By: Chris Angus | 24/03/2007 | Internet
A discussion of how the amount of bandwidth and disk space on your site can affect your SEO efforts and how to calculate how much you need.
One important aspect of search engine optimization is functionality and of course that means that your site must always be up and running. This...
Internet 
