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I seen a thread a while back about yahoo having a recurring payment, most said it was in fact a "one time fee" but checking out it today, its in fact a $300 recurring yearly fee just to be added
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2.4 The current fee for Yahoo! Express for initial consideration in the Directory is a NON-REFUNDABLE fee of US $299.00 applicable for each web site submitted that does not include adult content and/or services. If you are submitting a site offering adult content and/or services, the applicable fee for initial consideration in the Directory is a NON-REFUNDABLE FEE of US $600.00. All adult sites must be submitted to the most appropriate category under Business and Economy/Shopping and Services/Sex. You acknowledge that the payment of this fee is for consideration of your site AND DOES NOT IN ANY WAY GUARANTEE THAT YOUR SITE WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE DIRECTORY. Your payment only guarantees that Yahoo! will consider and respond to your request within seven business days, by either accepting or not accepting your site. You expressly agree to pay to Yahoo! such fee whether or not your site is accepted or denied inclusion in the Directory. If your web site is accepted for inclusion in the commercial Directory as part of Yahoo! Express on or after December 28, 2001, then your web site's continued inclusion in the Directory will be subject to additional review each year and you agree that your credit card will be charged the Recurring Annual Fee. Subject to Section 1.3 above, the current applicable Recurring Annual Fee is US $299 for web sites which do not offer adult content and/or services and is US $600 for web sites which do offer adult content and/or services. If Yahoo is unable to successfully charge your card or if the charge is refused, your site will be removed. IT IS THE APPLICANT'S RESPONSBILITY TO KEEP CREDIT CARD INFORMATION CURRENT.

I heard this somewhere a few months ago. And if they cannot charge your credit card come renewal time, I believe your listing is removed. I could be wrong though.

Originally posted by AlaskanWolf
I seen a thread a while back about yahoo having a recurring payment, most said it was in fact a "one time fee" but checking out it today, its in fact a $300 recurring yearly fee just to be addedIf you mean this thread (http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=35274) or this one (http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=31296), I think there's no question the concensus was that it's an annual fee. And it is. That started on December 28.

I still expect, regardless of how the TOS presently reads, that by the time next December rolls around and the first expirations are coming due, they will have established a system much like that everyone else doing subscription-based business uses -- and that they'll send out reminder notices. It only makes sense; just like every other business they'll want to avoid such hassles as chargebacks and they'll want renewals, obviously... so why make it easy for people to expire without even knowing or intending to? They have nearly a year to put a system in place.

And of course if they can't collect the fee after the expiration, they'll remove your site from the database, just like Inktomi does now for example.

How many users does Yahoo Search get anyways per month?

We're not listed in Yahoo!, but we get a ton of Yahoo hits due to the fact that they use Google to fill out their search pages.

Originally posted by pgrote
We're not listed in Yahoo!, but we get a ton of Yahoo hits due to the fact that they use Google to fill out their search pages. Sure, but the Google-supplied "web page matches" will never be on better than the second page in response to any query that Yahoo can answer itself. You can't tell how many people are searching for some related term, a term for which you'd rank will in Google, but never seeing you because they don't go past that first page.

Originally posted by Synergy
How many users does Yahoo Search get anyways per month?Hard to say precisely; there really are no completely reliable, firm sources of an answer to that question. Yahoo says they get 40 million visitors a month, but that's not just search users -- and it's visitors, not searches.

Reports from sources like Jupiter or Nielsen/NetRatings are usually expressed in terms of percentages, because they're based on analysis of a sample of sites... and it's hard to translate those percentages into actual numbers of searches or searchers.

Jupiter Media Metrix's most recent report from January put Yahoo's "audience reach" at 33%, just behind MSN at 36.3 and ahead of Google at 24.5. But again that's a measure of how many people search at a site in a month, so not the number of searches -- if someone searched at Yahoo 10 times in January and at MSN once, there were counted as "one" for each.

Wordtracker goes through a long exercise on their site to illustrate how they come up with their numbers. They estimate that Yahoo gets 37.7% of SE traffic, and that 121 million searches a day are conducted at Yahoo.

It's probably as good a guess as any.