http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-close-204370
Another "ahhh, the good old days" post to bring up memories of the past.
For a few years back in the early late 90s and early 2000s when the Yahoo Directory was still relevant and still valuable from an SEO perspective I was lucky enough to know an editor. His job was to find sites to add to the directory so when he happened to "find" them in an email from me it just made his job easier. Got hundreds of sites listed (some for some of the people here) and all I had to do was send the guy some steaks every now and then. And we included it as an "add on" to our rudimentary SEO services. I think we might have charged $500 or so for that.
Ahhh, the good old days...
Wish I'd know about that back when we were pulling every trick we could to get sites in. Thankfully if sites stayed live no-one really seemed to go back and check whether they had changed dramatically!
Both Laisha & Janet Berg were beta testers for Yahoo!
They never took their permissions away ;D
They were VERY "Helpful"
Laisha moved on to DMOZ ;)
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=2725
Interesting READ
http://www.kathichesnut.com/secrets.htm