Was the Yahoo Directory free in the past?

[GiddyUp]

I'm wondering how some non-commercial sites have HUDNREDS of listings in the yahoo directory?? Surely, this is not feasible for a non commercial site to pay $299/year for each of them.

For example: chinapage(.)com has 667 listings - if paid for, that would cost almost $200K/year!

anybody know about this? did they used to put them in by hand back in the day and just let good, informative sites stay?

would really like to know the answer to this one!

 

[Keral_Patel]

It is still free today for non commercial sites but you might be in que and your site might get approved or rejected after many years.

$299 is for review. So it is not even a listing fee. If you put $299 and then your site is rejected then $299 is not refundable.

 

[Marck]

I've had strange luck with the dir. The few sites I own are all listed and I never even submitted them for the free review.

 

[Posterboy]

Yes, a long time ago back when I first started getting sites it used to be free for commercial sites to list in the Yahoo directory. Then, in an effort to help their bottom line and keep justifying million dollar bonuses for execs, Yahoo switched to a fee-based submission service for Commercial use. If you have a non-commercial website then you can submit it for free, but it's going to take months before Yahoo reviews and possibly adds your site.

 

[Jasonn]

I remember getting one of my adult sites listed back in 99. Boy was that free traffic sweet.

 

[deep_3657]

I own a commercial site webnewtons.com and it IS listed in Y directory and I never paid anything to it. I just submitted it as a free site and it was accepted. Good luck for me.

However I have never seen any traffic from it coming to my site.

 

[Deaol]

you can still submit your site for free to any directory via Yahoo Canada

http://ca.dir.yahoo.com/

Just find the appropriate section and suggest a site

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