New businesses looking to start their online website often look for the best way to register their domain name yahoo and come up with the best address for customers to access their website. One great way to accomplish this is to use the service available from Yahoo. Using the Yahoo Domain service is simple, low cost, and backed by the Yahoo website once you make your choice. This article will talk about domain registration with yahoo and yahoo web hosting.

A domain name yahoo is an address for your website. The website address consists of a primary name and top level domain extension at the end of the address like.com,.net,.edu (for public schools), and.org. It is important to pick a good domain name that will attract business to your site and tie in with the type of service or product you are trying to sell online. Yahoo Domains can help you find the right primary name that will attract the most customers and help promote your site by hosting it on their network.

Businesses looking to register their domain name ideas can count on Yahoo to provide quality domain service at a low cost price. New customers can get the service for as little as $1.99 per year and that excludes set up fees for first time customers. They also provides a toll free number and online support for all of its Yahoo Domain customers. Since Yahoo is a popular site, setting up your domain name with their Yahoo Domain service can really be a positive for your business. Their experts are there to help you with any questions that you may have about the process and walk you through the whole process if needed. They can also help with additional services like web hosting or business solutions to help you grow your online business greatly.

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With the new Yahoo! "Pay-For-Review” model it might be relatively easier for sites to get into the directory but
getting traffic from your listing is altogether a different story. And now with it’s new annual recurring payment policy you have to be extra careful while submitting your site for a review.

Here are 8 things to keep in mind while submitting your site to Yahoo!

1) Selecting your domain name is the most vital step in getting a top ranking in Yahoo! and also other directories
like Dmoz and Looksmart.

Make sure your domain name is "Keyword Rich”. You can make your domain keyword rich by simply inserting hyphens to separate words in your domain name. Yahoo! gives more relevance to sites with keywords in their domain name.

While crafting your domain name, even you should try to keep your domain name such that it is made up of one, 2-4 words main or "parent” keyword; which in turn is made up of 2-4 high-in-demand "child” keywords.

You may or may not get a top ranking for all your targeted keywords but you can be sure of getting one for your main or "parent” keyword (If you do everything else right).

Even if you have to get a separate domain name for this purpose, GET IT! It is absolutely crucial for your ranking.

2) Sites which are placed higher in directory structure are given more relevance than sites which are placed lower or
deeper.

For example a site listed in category – B2B/Business_Opportunities will be given more relevance than a site listed in category – B2B/Business_Opportunities/Directories

Here’s a great tip to select the most trafficked category for your website…

Once you have short-listed 2 or 3 category to place your site in to, check out the cost of Sponsor Listings of those
categories.It’s really simple. Visit the following URL: https://ecom.yahoo.com/fast/sponsor

Enter the URL of any website that is listed in your desired category (The URL should be same as it appears in Yahoo! and the category should be a commercial category).

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Please note that Yahoo! accepts Sponsor Listings for only certain commercial categories and so this tip may or may not work for your category. There is a nominal fee of $199 to do this.
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You’ll be asked for your Yahoo! ID. Once you submit the information, you’ll be provided with the Sponsorship charges for that certain category. Repeat the process for your remaining short-listed categories.

Now compare the prices of all your short-listed categories. Naturally the one with a higher price is the most trafficked one!

3) Yahoo! considers keywords in the directory structure while ranking.

For example, if someone is searching for "Business Opportunities Directories”, a web site listed in category -
B2B/Business_Opportunities/Directories will be given more relevance than a web site listed in category – B2B/Business_Opportunities

4) Yahoo! DOES NOT spider websites to determine ranking. It ranks web sites based on keywords in domain name, title and description. So having META tags does not make any difference to your listing.

5) DO NOT try to stuff as much keywords as possible in to the description. Yahoo! editors are notorious for cutting down the description if they sense even slightest hype. Try to avoid words such as – no.1, proven, turnkey, exciting etc.

Also, make sure that the heading of your home page is same as the description you provided for your site. There should be no confusion in the mind of the editor reviewing your site.

6) Make sure your domain name and business name is the same since Yahoo! is known to use the business name as the title for your listing.

7) Make sure your website is "Content Rich”. This is very critical for two reasons. One – to get your site accepted by Yahoo! and Second – to maintain and get a higher listing.

Yahoo! determines the popularity of a website by the amount of time a visitor spends on your website. If a large no. of them hit the "back button” of their browser as soon as they hit your web site, you can kiss goodbye to your dreams of a possible higher listing.

Once you get a lower listing, it can get very difficult to make up as visitors will not be able to find your site
easily.

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Once a site gets accepted into the directory, Yahoo! ranks it based on the keyword popularity in domain name, title and description. But as time progresses, it determines the ranking based on the popularity of the website itself.

We ignored this and our listing came down drastically within few days of getting accepted!
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Before submitting your website, thoroughly research websites that rank higher for keywords you are targeting (Especially the "Most Popular” sites in the directory section). This will give you a rough idea of what to and what not to include in your website.

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