I don't feel very Yahoo!
3 March 2004
Filed under Technology, Text, The Interweb
Search engine submissions are something I've always been slack about. As far as I've been able to tell, most search engine submissions result in a greater volume of email spam than of actual visitors (although their crawlers do a great job, momentarily, of bumping up your site's numbers), and it can be a horribly time-consuming exercise to boot.
And then there's Yahoo!
If there's anyone out there who can tell me how to list a site using the FREE submission service, I'd love to hear from you. So far, my experience has been:
- STEP 1: Go to Yahoo!
- STEP 2: Hunt for search engine submission; find it in the centre of the page, in a list which also includes "Recruit staff" and "Buy and Sell on eBay"
- STEP 3: Sense that there will be costs involved
- STEP 4: Click link; discover joyous page offering Yahoo! Express service (paid) and Standard Submission (FREE!). Note odd-looking non-aqua button for "Standard Consideration"...
- STEP 5: Click odd-looking non-aqua button.
- STEP 6: Arrive at page entitled "How To Suggest Your Site".
- STEP 7: Search in vain for link to free submission page.
- STEP 8: Search again (in vain).
- STEP 9: Rinse, repeat.
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