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  1. #1
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    Yahoo now has free submit!

    Hi All

    I don't know if I'm the only one having trouble with the new Yahoo Inclusion but just in case try this link

    http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

    I took me a bunch of times for it to take but it will work if you keep trying. It beats paying the 300 bucks
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    Free!! Lookout you'll have YGWYPF people here soon

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    wow. i like free.
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    Yes, Free is good
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    I thought that was always around, I remember submitting URLs there years ago..
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    They all used to be free to submit years ago. Yahoo recently though didn't allow free submissions to the commercial directory.

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    You must remember that Yahoo, like most of the directories these days, blend search engine results and directory listings. Yahoo was using google for search engine results up until recently. Now it has gone off on its own. I has bought several search engines. It don't know which because I don't follow SEO much.

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    How long will it usually take for Yahoo to crawl the site? Any experience?

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    Originally posted by stylish one
    How long will it usually take for Yahoo to crawl the site? Any experience?
    Several weeks and its not guaranteed that they will let their bot actually crawl your web site. They still check every URL manually prior to submitting it.
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    Cool. I just submitted mine. I wish they had continued to use Google.I get lots of hits from Google and almost none from Yahoo.

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    Being submitted to both is much better LOL

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    Great, thanks for the link.

    I was actually trying just yesterday to get one of my sites submitted.

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    Originally posted by speedy007h
    Cool. I just submitted mine. I wish they had continued to use Google.I get lots of hits from Google and almost none from Yahoo.
    While it being true that Google sends the most hits you will notice in your site stats, you cannot expect search engines to continue using Google technology when Google is making money with it. They will eventually would want to steal parts of that market pie.

    Yahoo is doing it. MSN is doing it. Everyone else will soon follow.
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    Re: Yahoo now has free submit!

    Originally posted by oletom
    It beats paying the 300 bucks
    you've never had to pay for the free crawl!

    you had to pay for the directory and overture for example but not the free crawl. Inktomi slurp has been slurping my sites since yahoo bought them

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    Originally posted by stylish one
    How long will it usually take for Yahoo to crawl the site? Any experience?
    It will probably crawl your site as Inktomi rather than as Yahoo.

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    Re: Yahoo now has free submit!

    Originally posted by oletom
    I took me a bunch of times for it to take but it will work if you keep trying. It beats paying the 300 bucks
    Just to clarify, it's not the same thing. The $299 fee is for inclusion in the Yahoo Directory. The submission page here is to request spidering for the new Yahoo index -- basically submitting here will do just what submitting at Google used to do when Yahoo was using them (that is, almost nothing ).

    Yahoo also is now offering paid inclusion into this same database that their crawler is filling, through what they're calling "Site Match." You pay per url (similar to what Inktomi and AltaVista have offered) but also a per-click price.
    Originally posted by Rich2k
    It will probably crawl your site as Inktomi rather than as Yahoo.
    Actually, it's now Yahoo! Slurp... you can still identify it in logs or robots.txt using the user-agent slurp -- just as it was with Inktomi.
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