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Old 04-26-2007, 09:24 PM
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Default Re: Is Yahoo worth the money

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Originally Posted by muskie
I just renewed my Yahoo directory listing $299.00 about two months ago. My site has been in Yahoo's directory going on two years. The site is #1 on MSN & #4 on Google for the primary keyword phrase and has been on page one on both for many months. My site is nowhere to be found on Yahoo for that keyword phrase or any other. I think this is my last year for the Yahoo Directory.
Forgive the double post.

This proves only that Yahoo is fair. If you paid and were included in the SERPs then the results would be tainted.

Given that you are not in the SERPs then this leads one to believe the fault is yours and not the search engines. I typically rank terms on the front pages of all three engines, since you are able to grab two somethings wrong for the third.

Try this

1. Add robots.txt

2. Check for spammed keyword tags, make sure keywords in tag match page content (do this for each page of your site)

3. Check for any other coding compliance using W3C.org

Good luck!
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