How To Get Listed In Yahoo For Free!Written by Godfrey Heron
PUBLISHING GUIDELINES: Copyright (C) Godfrey Heron Publication Rules: You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge. If published please e-mail mailto:godfrey@advanced-webtechniques.com Word wrapped at 60 characters ---------------------------------- How to get quickly listed in Yahoo for free ---------------------------------- Over last couple of months, services which carry out site submission have seen their effectiveness gradually eroded. Let's look at a typical submission scenario to get big picture. You submit your site either automatically or by hand, then you wait a few weeks. If search spider likes what it sees, it adds your site to list. If not, it simply ignores your site. We've all heard stories of engines, for example, penalizing a site because its on a free host. *Free* search engines had previously profited from significant advertising revenue. However, for many reasons which we shall not go into here, advertising market crashed, carrying with it revenues of sites which depended on advertising income. With fall off in advertising revenues they jealously regarded success of pay per click search engine models. A transition then gradually took place, with free search engines now either requiring: a:) Payment for listing b:) A customized interpretation of pay per click model Transitions are never usually easy and fraught with sundry hiccups. Such as Looksmarts horrible undertaking to switch from "free service" to "payment for listing" to "pay per click" model. All this in a short space of time. This decision was based solely on revenue benefits. The inadequate implementation only served to annoy and alienate their clients.
| | "When is Free not REALLY Free?"Written by John Evans
"When is Free not REALLY Free?" copyright 2001-02 John EvansWe all like to get something for free. Whether it's free software, free advertising, free ebooks, or free coupons, they're fun to get. But when is free REALLY free? "When there are NO strings attached!" Period. Nada. Nothing. Absolutely NONE! For instance, every once in a while, I'll click on a free offer, which only takes me to another page, and before I can really get "freebie", I have to first "click here" to see their sales pitch. Or "click here to qualify for your free ...." Qualify? THAT is a string, and there should be NO strings attached, of any kind. Because if there are "qualifications", then item JUST ISN'T FREE! How many times has this happened to you? You receive in mail an invitation to receive a free gift. And all you have to do is, 1. Take a tour of our new facility, or 2. Take a test drive, or 3.Listen to our 3 hour sales pitch?
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