As we all know that Yahoo! is one of the major search engine in the Internet Marketing industry. After the great success of Yahoo! mail service, they have developed lot of products like Google. But, after sometime Yahoo! starts to shut down its services one by one. In search engine point of view, Directory is one of the link building method to obtain the one way backlink easily and also to bring the targeted keywords in the top position in Search Engines. Despite, lot of directory sites are available across the internet, search engines consider the following two directories as worthable to rank in SEs (i) DMOZ and (ii) Yahoo! Directory. The recent bad news from Yahoo! is that the Yahoo! UK and Ireland Directory service will be going to shut down from November 18, 2010 onwards. Here below the notification from Yahoo! Directory Submit Team,
Dear Yahoo! Directory Submit Client,
You are receiving this message because your site has been listed in the Yahoo! Directory under the Regional/Countries/United Kingdom or the Regional/Countries/Ireland category path. Because of this, your site has also been appearing in the U.K. & Ireland Directory. (http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/) We are notifying you that the Yahoo! U.K. & Ireland Directory will be shutting down on November 18, 2010, and your site’s listing in that directory will be eliminated. Your site listing in the U.S.-based Directory (http://dir.yahoo.com) will remain unchanged. Your site is listed in the Yahoo! Directory with Order ID 123456 for the following URL: http://www.website.co.uk/
Your site was submitted to the Yahoo! Directory Submit program and was added to the following category: Regional/Countries/United Kingdom/Business and Economy/Shopping and Services/Home and Garden/Home Improvement/ We understand that appearing in the Yahoo! UK & Ireland Directory may have been important to some of our U.K.-based customers. Because of this impending shutdown, as a courtesy, we are offering you the following options for your listing.
1) You may continue to maintain your listing through the Yahoo! Directory Submit program. Your site will remain listed in the Directory as it is now and the applicable annual fee will apply on your anniversary date. No further action on your behalf would be required.
2) You may request a refund of the most recent fee you paid as part of the Directory Submit program. Your Directory Submit account would be terminated immediately, and your site will then be removed from the Yahoo! Directory. If you wish to proceed with this option, please email cc-directory-submit-billing-e2y@yahoo-inc.com with the Order ID, your YahooID, and the URL of your listing. In order to take advantage of this refund, Yahoo! must receive a fully completed request no later than 5 p.m. PDT on November 18, 2010. Otherwise, Yahoo! will conclude that you have selected the first option. The annual renewal date for your site is coming up on: 08-May-2011
To review the Yahoo! Directory Submit Terms of Service, please visit https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/reference/submit/
Thank you for your participation in the Yahoo! Directory Submit Program
Sincerely,
The Yahoo! Directory Submit Team
Courtesy: Blogstorm Blog and Yahoo!
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