3. After you have determined that your site is indeed not listed in Yahoo directory and you have designed your site to comply with their requirements, you will need to find an appropriate category to list your site. Take your time and explore all of different categories and sub-categories of index. This is very important, because if you submit to wrong category your site will be rejected. At very bottom of page (and sometimes also at top), there will be a ‘Suggest a Site’ link. If there is no such link, then you are probably viewing a category that does not allow submissions. After clicking this link, you will be brought to Suggest a Site page, or directly to Business Express page if you are submitting to a Business category.

4. Be sure to carefully review all of their suggestions on site submissions before proceeding. You will be prompted for, among other things, your site's Title, URL, and Description. Carefully fill these out, double-checking your information for accuracy. Take some time with your description and remember to include crucial keywords related to your services or products. Give some thought as to how a Yahoo editor might edit it down. Try to word your description so that it is as concise as possible, and therefore hard to make smaller.

After you have filled out all of your information and submitted your payment (if using Business Express), keep your fingers crossed and patiently wait for their answer. It’s true that you risk loosing $199, but Yahoo is simply too important to pass up. Following these suggestions will greatly improve your chances of getting accepted into Yahoo! directory.

==> Getting The Most From Pay For Position Search Engines

For business owner with a very large advertising budget, Goto.com may be only search engine with whom you need to be listed. Results from Goto now partially power sites such as AltaVista and an array of metasearch engines. However, if your budget is more modest, then widely accepted solution is to list on as many pay for position search engines as possible, and to place low bids for as many keywords as possible. As with all vibrant markets, increased competition is providing an increasing choice for Internet business owner.

==> Client Interfaces

All of top pay for position engines provide dedicated Web interfaces so that clients can control their listings easily. These interfaces are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week allowing fast updates to titles, descriptions and bid amounts as well as allowing clients to add new sites as desired.

Most pay for position engines allow creation of client accounts before payment is required -- giving you opportunity to evaluate ease of use of each particular system.

==> Changing Times

In search engine world, thousands of spammers have forced big search engines into implementing strict listing policies, often at expense of legitimate Websites seeking a decent search engine ranking. Pay for position is helping to level field. Most spammers will not pay for a listing, as a consequence, pay for position search engines are populated by legitimate businesses and entrepreneurs seeking to advertise to their desired markets.

With a pay for position search engine, there is no longer any need to compete with spammers and homepages for top rankings.

The new rules are: * YOU choose your title * YOU choose your description * YOU choose where you are ranked

It's a simple philosophy prevalent in offline business world -- and one that is now available to online businesses, as well.

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