Help get 3reef on Yahoo

I'm sending out an SOS.

3reef used to get most of it's traffic from Yahoo. Then two years ago I switched servers and the site totally fell off of their index.

I've resubmitted the site a thousand times to no effect. I don't see any threads on there.

We have great results on Google, but if we could get back on Yahoo this place would be really hopping.

Any experts out there know how to get back on? I'd love to hear any tips.

Thanks,

matt

 

What key words are you using to search?

 

I know you said you registered, but I used this route with my site and it worked fine, had the same problem you were having, then I found this link through the Yahoo site...maybe it will help..

http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/srchsb/sse.php?mkt=us

Then click on either the "paid search submission" or the "free search submission" I did the free one and it worked for me. Ill try to see if I can find anyone who has any more incite...

 

THanks. I think I did the free one but I did not see the link on that page.

Well mainly I used 'site: www.3reef.com' which should give you a sense of what is indexed.

 

OK, you're speaking that computer language again When I searched Yahoo for "3reef", our site was first on the list of results. I'm positive that that doesn't help you in any way

 

Matt

I think, and I may be wrong, that Yahoo is a Directory and not a search engine. In other words when you submit 3reef someone at Yahoo visits and places 3reef in the appropriate postion within Yahoo, which is why you will not see threads. Google on the other hand is a search engine which will use a spider to search through 3reef and will include discussion threads within their listings.


Quote from the Yahoo site

The Yahoo! Directory is organized by subject. Most sites in it are suggested to us by users. Sites are placed in categories by Yahoo! editors, who visit and evaluate your suggestions and decide where the sites best belong. We do this to ensure that Yahoo! is organized in the best possible way, making the directory easy to use, intuitive, helpful, and fair to everyone.

So I guess this means that you need to go back to Yahoo and either pay for 3reef to be included in which case one of their people or processes will scan the entire 3reef site or you will need to find all the categories that 3reef can fit into and manually submit each one. Just as a pointer, when you do submit to Yahoo ( or others ) don't use "3reef" as the keyword, you would be better with something far more generic like "fish aquarium discussion chat board " as this is the type of information someone would type into the Yahoo search bar.

Cheers

John