I, for one, have been on the fence about Yahoo's $299 price tag for quite some time. When I was first building
www.OneMoreBite.com I put all my attention on getting good placement in Yahoo; from choosing my website name to include a keyword (that's why I use onemorebite-weightloss.com), to their requirements for titles, and so on. Then just as I was nearly ready to slam down my plastic, the team at
www.se-news.com reported it didn't make sense to pay $299 for Yahoo anymore. Nice. So I decided to take a wait-and-see approach. That was a year ago and I'm still waiting...
I did pay to list my husband's site,
www.daytradersbulletin.com and originally made the mistake of using the keyword "advisory" so they placed us in Advisory Services category which is not where one looks if they want a daytrading site. I kept checking to see who was listed in the Daytrading category and the junky, useless sites I found were so appalling I finally stopped looking. It's the same old song but again, a site with hundreds of pages of information can't get listed in the correct category while a lousy site with nothing more than a "make big bucks with no effort, sign up here" page gets top billing. I always believed good content would win out, but I'm still finding those same sites getting better placement. Today a search for daytrading at Yahoo.com displays a book at Amazon.com as No. 15. That's ridiculous.
It's difficult now with so many search sites vying for your marketing dollars and only so much money to go around - who do you choose, and at $299, Yahoo may have priced themselves out of the game unless they do something to show otherwise.
Kathryn