Hello,

I'd like to hear your input on this.

Do you think it is worth $299/year to get listed on Yahoo?

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Yahoo! seems to be outsroucing more of their searches to Google, so a good listing in Google may be more important than a good listing in Yahoo!

THAT IS A MOST RIDICULOUS PRICE!

Worth getting listed yes but not at that price! Unless you realy need it.

It is not too rediculous. Yahoo generally brings a lot of people good traffic. At any rate, are you sure thats 299 a year? I was pretty sure it was a one time fee.

It was a onetime fee.

I'm not sure who gave them the idea of recurring fee.

It is not too rediculous.

I realy think it is if you have to pay this every year.

But not if its a one time fee.

I agree with that

I wouldn't mine paying $299/year, if I get a lot of unique hits a day.

I would never pay the 299. It is a rip off in my opinion..........but if it is gonna help your site, then it may be worth it.........

Originally posted by uuallan
Yahoo! seems to be outsroucing more of their searches to Google, so a good listing in Google may be more important than a good listing in Yahoo! I wouldn't say that they're "outsourcing more," but Google is Yahoo's source for non-directory search results. If a search term doesn't return any results from Yahoo's own directory, Google results are used instead, and Google results are returned as "web page" matches (as opposed to "site matches") even when there are results from the directory.

But the way the result pages are constructed at Yahoo, Google results in the second case are on a second, linked page. So a good Google placement will always be a second-page listing for any search term that brings a hit from Yahoo itself -- even if, for example, it's the number three result it will be on page two. That means behind "Category Matches" (Yahoo directory categories), "Sponsor Matches" (Overture results, if there are any), "Web Site Matches" (Yahoo results), and "More Sponsor Matches" (more Overture listings); all of which will be on the first page returned.

So a good placement at Google won't mean a good placement at Yahoo for many competitive search terms.

Anyway, just to clear up some of the speculation in this thread, on December 28th the $299 fee for Yahoo's Express Submission was changed from a one-time to an annual fee.

Is $299/year, 82 cents a day, worth it? Depends on your site and how many visitors a Yahoo listing will bring. But in many cases site operators are paying far more than that already for PPC listings at Overture, and it's cheaper than submitting 12 pages to Inktomi's paid inclusion program.

Much of this was discussed on an older thread: http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=31296

I'd pay 300 to be listed in the top 50, but after that no way.

Is anyone being listed on Yahoo right now?

Could you tell me your listing rank and how many hits you get a day?

The scary thing about paying the $299 ransom isn't that it's $299 reocurring each year. It's that since now it's a "service" yahoo can at any time raise it to whatever amount they want.
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If they charge $299/year, for sure you won't pay more during your $299 year period. If they decide to raise the price the coming year, you can quit using their service.

Originally posted by Asia
If they charge $299/year, for sure you won't pay more during your $299 year period. If they decide to raise the price the coming year, you can quit using their service.

But the point is that they can raise their prices on us at any time, whereas before you pay a one-time fee for a lifetime listing.

I believe once they have enough $299/year subscribers, they will kick those onetime listings out or make them pay $299/year. If they kick or charge those onetime listings right now, their site would look blank. :D

Originally posted by Asia
I believe once they have enough $299/year subscribers, they will kick those onetime listings out or make them pay $299/year. I believe they won't do that, for the same reason they didn't do it on December 28 when they started the annual fee policy: the terms under which those sites were added wouldn't allow it.

It wouldn't suprise me, though, to see them redesign their result pages so that sites paying the annual fee get preferential placement over those that paid the one-time fee, unless those sites choose to begin paying annually. The TOS have never made any guarantees about how results are presented, so they'd be within their rights to make that kind of change.

it doesn't realy matters if they charge $299 / year or $365 / year there are companies who pay $3 to $6 per click and I am sure they will advertise it no matter how much charges yahoo is going to charge until they are getting traffic from yahoo.


just my $0.02 ;)