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Search Engine Watch
November 16, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Drops Free Submit For Commercial Categories Yahoo is now charging for all sites that wish to submit to certain commercial categories of its directory...   |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart First To Charge Commercial Sites After months of beta testing, LookSmart has become the first major search service to charge commercial sites to be reviewed for inclusion in its listings. In addition, the revenue-generating move appears to have helped LookSmart win back its former position as AltaVista's directory provider. |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Submitting For Free Now that all of LookSmart's major partners are offering the paid LookSmart Express Submit program on their own Add URL pages, a number of people believe that they must also pay a fee to be listed in the non LookSmart-powered portions of these search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2000 |
Free Listings Gone At LookSmart In mid-May, LookSmart ceased accepting free submissions to the US-edition of its directory. The company says that this is not yet a permanent move. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Free Search Engine Submission Is Still Alive! Despite the rise in paid participation programs, it is still possible to get listed in search engines for free... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Changes Results, Increases Submission Price Last week, Yahoo's search results pages underwent probably the most significant change since the service began. Yahoo also increased the price of its Yahoo Express submission service to $299, last month... |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
European Search Engine News Yahoo makes paid submission mandatory for businesses in the UK and a new option for those in Italy. LookSmart UK begins powering former rival UK Plus and has launched a paid placement service. And Excite is back -- at least in some European countries, powered by FAST. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Changes To Cost-Per-Click Listings Pay -- and keep paying -- or don't appear, LookSmart told existing and new listing customers last month, in a significant change to how the human-powered search engine lists web pages from commercial web sites... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Overhauls Submission Process, Increases Prices The good news is that over the past month, LookSmart has given site owners greater flexibility than ever before to get listed with the service. The changes make getting listed more complicated, but are especially beneficial for those with non-commercial content... |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Submission Data Was Left Vulnerable Information in LookSmart's submission queue has been left open to the public, giving access to the names, phone numbers and email addresses of those who have submitted sites to the service. Credit card data, however, was not exposed... |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Ups Basic Submit Price The price of LookSmart's "Basic Submit" service has been increased from $79 to $99. Basic Submit guarantees that a site will be reviewed within eight weeks for possible inclusion into the directory... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Changing To Cost-Per-Click Basis Next week, LookSmart plans a shift to a model where most new listings in the commercial portions of its directory will be sold a cost-per-click basis... |
Search Engine Watch
June 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Hit With Potential Class Action Lawsuit Over Submission Program A proposed class action lawsuit claiming breach of contract, fraudulent business practices and misleading advertising has been filed against LookSmart over a recent change in how the company sells some of its commercial web site listings |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2000 |
Growing Pains At Volunteer Directories The use of volunteers generates a different set of problems that webmasters may encounter during the submission process at the Open Directory and Go Guides. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi To Offer Paid Submit Option In the wake of LookSmart's new pay-for-consideration system, Inktomi has just announced that it will offer a pay for inclusion service later this year. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Letters About LookSmart's Cost-Per-Click Change A sampling of letters received by Search Engine Watch relating to the change by LookSmart to cost-per-click pricing... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
LookSmart Live Looks-Up Answers Looking for an answer? Look no further than LookSmart, which is providing custom research to frustrated searchers through its new LookSmart Live program. |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Iconocast Poll Sheds Light On Search Engine Optimization Issues In November, the respected Iconocast newsletter surveyed its readers on search engine optimization issues. Here's a summary of key findings, based on 404 responses... |
Search Engine Watch
March 7, 2000 |
About.com No Longer Poster Child For Yahoo Abuse Examines comments in March 2000 that Yahoo was actively keeping About.com sites out of its listings. |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Adds Paid Listings Option For Small Businesses A new program from LookSmart has made it possible for small businesses and others with low publicity budgets to get listed within the paid placement area of its search results... |
ONLINE
May 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this.... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Monetizing The Search Monetizing the search means making money in some way off the search results you present. More than ever, monetizing the search is a concern for the search engines. |
Information Today
May 6, 2002
Tara Calishain |
Yahoo! Service Offers More Advice Than Expertise First Google started an advice service with Google Answers. Now Yahoo! has stepped into the arena with Yahoo! Advice, which is offered through a partnership with LiveAdvice. Is this a new trend in search engine offerings or just a way for these two companies to generate revenue? |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Extends Credits LookSmart is extending the period of credit given to those who failed to activate LookListings Small Business accounts. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo, GoTo Top Ways For Paid Traffic Yahoo and GoTo offer the most popular programs for site owners to obtain traffic from search engines, a survey of 94 marketers has found. Respondents to the I-Search mailing list survey also sound off about what they hate, what they like and what they wish to see... |
Searcher
September 2002
Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines |
Search Engine Watch
April 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Offers Free Business Web Sites Yahoo is expanding its Yahoo Local search service by providing a free web site to business owners that will automatically be integrated into Yahoo Local listings. |
Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2000 |
Yahoo Changes Listings Significant changes to the look and functionality of Yahoo are few and far between, which can be a relief given how some other search engines can seem to be constantly altering themselves.... |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Gets Paid Listings If the appearance of paid placement listings on search engines has been a revolution over the past few months, then the war is over, because they've now come to that most conservative of search engines, Yahoo... |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Cuts Staff But Gains Big Amazon Deal LookSmart cut its staff by nearly one-third last month, but this was due primarily to the continuing refocus at LookSmart on selling listings that are distributed to partners, rather than trying to sell advertising on its own site... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Debuts Self-Serve Paid Inclusion In a landmark move, Inktomi announced a new partnership with Position Technologies this week that allows site owners to pay for guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomi index... |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
July 2000 Search Engine Briefs Brief items on changes to Snap, web mapping research, a new news resource, a chat search engine and more. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Bumpy Road To Maximum Monetization Most search engines come nowhere near monetizing all the links displayed on their search results pages. However, the quest for greater profits is likely to change this, especially if the search engines think it can be done without hurting the relevancy of their product... |
Search Engine Watch
June 15, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Upgrades Email to Compete with Google's Gmail Yahoo has expanded capacity and significantly upgraded the performance of its email system, making it a viable alternative to Google's Gmail service. |
Search Engine Watch
February 16, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Changes Afoot at Yahoo & MSN Yahoo switches from Google to its own search, and MSN drops LookSmart listings. |
The Motley Fool
July 13, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Odd Times at Yahoo! Yahoo! is acquiring a San Francisco-based startup, Oddpost. The purchase will likely help Yahoo! rake in more reasons for users to either sign on or pay up for its premium Web-based mail service. |
The Motley Fool
August 1, 2005
Tom Taulli |
LookSmart's Dim Outlook Looking at these results, it's hard to believe that LookSmart is in the online search business. Isn't this an industry in hypergrowth? Given the severity of its losses, it will take time for LookSmart to turn the corner, if at all. |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
The Paid Inclusion Dinosaur A look at the bet Yahoo's making and alternative plays they could have tried. |
Information Today
March 19, 2007 |
Yahoo! Answers Adds Personal Networking Yahoo! Answers, a Q&A site on the Web, has introduced "knowledge networking," an easy way for people to connect to others online and to build a personal network of people to exchange knowledge with on specific areas of interest. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Yahoo Partners With Google Yahoo has selected Google to take over from Inktomi in powering Yahoo's secondary results.... |
Search Engine Watch
October 9, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Renews With Google, Changes Results After months of speculation, Yahoo announced today that it has renewed its relationship to use Google's results as part of its search listings. In addition, Yahoo made a substantial change to end its historic barrier between human-powered and crawler-based search results. |
InternetNews
May 14, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Contact-ual Search Plaxo and Yahoo! team up for a new outlook on contact management. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Use An Ad Blocker? Yahoo May Block Your Email Earlier this month, Yahoo quietly began testing a system that blocks out people who are using ad-blocking software. It appears Yahoo is doing this not for technical reasons, but to protect revenue. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Yahoo!'s New Outlook Users may finally see Yahoo!'s new and improved email service soon. But investors may have good reason to wonder whether Yahoo! has become too slow on the draw in its attempts to fend off competition. |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Gmail Meets Ymail Free-email giant Yahoo! is opening up the domain options today, by allowing users to register for new accounts under ymail.com and rocketmail.com domain names. |
Search Engine Watch
December 8, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Bolsters Local Search Business Listings Yahoo has quietly expanded its local business listings and rolled out a service that gives businesses control over their listings in Yahoo Local through a new content inclusion program. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Yahoo! Thinks Small The concept that makes the offer of free hosting for small businesses compelling is that so many don't have a Web presence yet. And many of these are precisely the businesses that would help to bulk up Yahoo!'s local search efforts. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2005
Kelvin Taylor |
Yahoo! Follows Google ... Again PhotoMail vs. GMail -- let the grudge match begin. Yahoo! is investing money into infrastructure to expand its features, generate additional traffic, and in turn garner more ad revenue. Time will tell whether this strategy works -- or simply lowers profit margins. |
Search Engine Watch
June 8, 2006
Danny Sullivan |
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers! New stats add fuel to the idea that Yahoo Answers is perhaps becoming a social interacting phenomenon like YouTube or MySpace. A look at the service's growth and how it works. |
InternetNews
January 3, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Dash a Yahoo Search in The Driver's Seat Thanks to Yahoo's partnership with Dash Navigation, you can now have Yahoo Local search in your car. |
