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The Business Blog at Intuitive.com
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Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and
is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business
issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related
startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed.
Dave maintains four weblogs:
The Business Blog at Intuitive.com,
Ask Dave Taylor,
Dave On Film,
and
Attachment Parenting Blog.
Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and
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Just when I'd completely given up hope: Yahoo! comes through
For at least a year I've been writing that people should submit their site listings to Yahoo! but not hold their breath: the odds of getting your listing added to Yahoo! without paying their ridiculous fee of $299 seemed vanishingly thin. Further, I've also written about how Yahoo! has lost its way, getting so excited about being a Media Company that they've forgotten to lavish any attention on their online directory, the heart of their ostensible empire.So you can imagine my surprise when I received the following email message... This is what I got from Yahoo! this morning, after submitting a site less than two weeks ago:
The URL you suggestedAmazing. It restores a bit of my faith in the team at Yahoo! and makes me wonder if there was some sort of internal realignment -- or response to Google's pending IPO? - that caused the directory to gain more personnel. Be that as it may, if you've been thinking about submitting listings to Yahoo!, now might be a good time to do so.<url:http://www.APparenting.com/>
has been added to Yahoo!. It will appear after our next update, probably within the next 2-4 days. You can find your site at that time by looking through the "What's New" listings (http://www.yahoo.com/new/) or by searching on its title or URL.
It has come to our attention that various organizations have been sending unsolicited messages to new sites that appear in our listings. We're sorry if you're inconvenienced by messages of this kind; Yahoo! does not condone these messages in any way, nor do we divulge to anyone contact information for the sites we list.
Thank you for taking the time to suggest your site. We rely on our users to make Yahoo! complete and comprehensive. In order to keep Yahoo! accurate, please also let us know of any future changes that might affect your listing.
If you haven't already done so, and you'd like to return the favor and put Yahoo! on your own site, please see http://www.yahoo.com/docs/yahootogo/ for detailed instructions.
Thanks again,
The Yahoo! Team
Now if we could just get DMOZ to be even slightly responsive to suggested site additions...
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