Submitting Your Site to the Yahoo! Directory - Free submission to the Yahoo! Directory
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Free inclusion is similar in many ways to the Express entry to the Yahoo! Directory. It is much slower, however. Yahoo doesn’t guarantee a review of all free submission sites either. In fact, Yahoo! may never get around to evaluating your non-commercial site for inclusion in the directory at all.
It is still worth your effort to submit your non-business site to the Yahoo! Directory through the free submission process. But remember that there are absolutely no assurances of success.
How to Submit a Non-Business Site for Free
To begin your free submission, be sure to check if your website is already listed or not. Often, you will find your site is already included within the directory, by entering your URL or website title into the search box. If your site is already there, you can sit back and relax; you are already included.
Should your site not be part of the directory, you will have to submit it by hand. Search through the available categories, digging deeper into the subcategories, for the right match for your website. Eventually, you will find the right spot for your website to be located.
The basic information page for free site submissions can be found here: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/.
Be sure to write down the name of the category you have chosen, and the date of your submission. That information may be required later, should there be a problem with your inclusion. As with all directory submissions, it is a good practice to maintain good records of when and where your site has been submitted. Yahoo! is no exception.
When the appropriate category has been found, it’s time to submit your website. Click on the Suggest a Site button, located at the top right hand corner of the page.
You will be asked to provide the website title, its complete URL, as well as a brief description. As with the paid Express inclusion, your description should be as honest and objective as possible. Blatantly keyword loaded descriptions are likely to be changed, or your site rejected entirely. A reasonable and objective site description will almost certainly be approved.
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