Utilize the Local Versions of Yahoo! to Boost Your Online Search Exposure
Author: Ralph Tegtmeier
As the world's largest directory/portal and
generator of search related traffic, Yahoo! entertains
a wide range of localized sites and categories. Not
all of them require paid inclusion for business sites.
So if your site qualifies, you may want to sign up
under a regional category instead of paying $199 for
the mere chance of having your site reviewed.
You may even consider setting up a dedicated web site
under a foreign TLD (top level domain) in order to
achieve multiple entries in this prime traffic pusher.
(Take care not to merely clone your main site, however:
Yahoo!'s editors are well known not to take kindly to
that well worn strategy.)
But will it really effect search results? That's the
best part of it: it won't! The typical surfer doesn't
really care where a domain is listed within Yahoo!'s
vast, hard to fathom category structure. So getting
listed at all - anywhere! - is the only important
point.
Below you will find a list of localized Yahoo! URLs
and the TLDs you may want to sign up under to get
listed.
Note, however, that restrictions may apply: some TLD
registrars will only register commmercial sites with a
physical corporate presence in the country concerned.
You can check out all the world's TLDs and their
registrars at: < //www.betterwhois.com >
Europe
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Denmark (.dk):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/dk >
France (.fr):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/fr >
Germany (.de):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/de >
Italy (.it):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/it >
Norway (.no):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/no >
Spain (.es):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/es >
Sweden (.se):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/se >
UK + Ireland (.co.uk, .ie):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/uk >
Asia/Pacific Region
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Asia (Selection: .af, .bd, .bt,
.id, .la,.lk, .mm, .mo, .ph, .pk,
.sr, .th, .ir):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/ai >
Australia + New Zealand (.au, .nz):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/an >
China (.cn):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/cc >
Hong Kong (.hk):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/hk >
India (.in):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/id >
Japan (.jp):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/jp >
Korea (.kr):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/kr >
Singapore (.sg):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/sg >
Taiwan (.tw):
< //www.yahoo.com/r w >
The Americas
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Argentina (.ag):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/ag >
Brazil (.br):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/br >
Canada (.ca):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/cd >
Chinese:
< //www.yahoo.com/r/cn >
Mexico (.mx):
< //www.yahoo.com/r/mx >
Spanish:
< //www.yahoo.com/r/ep >
U.S. Cities
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Atlanta:
< //www.yahoo.com/r/at >
Boston:
< //www.yahoo.com/r/bo >
Chicago:
< //www.yahoo.com/r/ch >
Dallas/Fort Worth:
< //www.yahoo.com/r/df >
Los Angeles:
< //www.yahoo.com/r/lo >
New York City:
< //www.yahoo.com/r/ny >
San Francisco Bay Area:
< //www.yahoo.com/r/ba >
Washington D.C.:
< //www.yahoo.com/r/wd >
U.S. States
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< //www.yahoo.com/r/mm >
Ralph Tegtmeier is the co-founder and principal of
fantomaster.com Ltd. (UK) and fantomaster.com GmbH
(Belgium), < //fantomaster.com/ > a company
specializing in webmasters software development,
industrial-strength cloaking and search engine
positioning services. You can contact him at
mailto:fneditor@fantomaster.com