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Masters of Marketing - Lifecycle Performance Pros

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http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/suggest.html<br />

Paying the fee does not guarantee that your site will be<br />

accepted. So download this excerpt from Make Your Site SELL!<br />

for how to get listed in Yahoo!. The concepts hold true for<br />

all directories.<br />

http://www.sitesell.com/extracts/yahoo-extract.exe<br />

(The file is a self-extracting zipped file. Windows users,<br />

double-click on it and then click on "Unzip" button. Mac<br />

users unzip it by using Stuffit Expander 5.5 or greater.)<br />

RECOMMENDATION: Probably worth the $199. If your site looks<br />

sufficiently like a "hobby site," you might be able to get a<br />

free listing. My guess, though, is that the Yahoo! editors<br />

are thorough enough to recognize that your site has a<br />

commercial goal. In any event, the free service is getting<br />

notoriously slow -- so it’s probably better to pay.<br />

While you’ll build far more traffic through the free and<br />

pay-per-click engines, a Yahoo! listing will bring you some<br />

traffic. And it will help in your link popularity score.<br />

Just make sure your site’s in top shape, with at least 20<br />

good pages, before you submit.<br />

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Open Directory<br />

http://www.dmoz.org/add.html<br />

http://dmoz.org/guidelines.html<br />

For Open Directory, specifically, see this article in Sales<br />

from the EDGE, Issue #003...<br />

http://www.sitesell.com/edge/backissues-003.html<br />

RECOMMENDATION: Definitely worth it -- hey, it’s free!<br />

Again, the traffic will be decent, but less than what you<br />

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