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Utilize the Local Versions of Yahoo! to Boost Your
Online Search Exposure
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by
Ralph Tegtmeier aka fantomaster
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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 $$$ for the mere
chance of having your site reviewed and to keep it
included if you ever make it. 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: < http://www.betterwhois.com >

(Note: in some countries paid express submission has
recently been or is currently being implemented!)

Europe
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Denmark (.dk):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/dk >
France (.fr):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/fr >
Germany (.de):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/de >
Italy (.it):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/it >
Norway (.no):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/no >
Spain (.es):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/es >
Sweden (.se):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/se >
UK + Ireland (.co.uk, .ie):
< http://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):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/ai >
Australia + New Zealand (.au, .nz):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/an >
China (.cn):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/cc >
Hong Kong (.hk):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/hk >
India (.in):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/id >
Japan (.jp):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/jp >
Korea (.kr):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/kr >
Singapore (.sg):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/sg >
Taiwan (.tw):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/tw >

The Americas
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Argentina (.ag):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/ag >
Brazil (.br):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/br >
Canada (.ca):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/cd >
Chinese:
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/cn >
Mexico (.mx):
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/mx >
Spanish:
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/ep >

U.S. Cities
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Atlanta:
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/at >
Boston:
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/bo >
Chicago:
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/ch >
Dallas/Fort Worth:
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/df >
Los Angeles:
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/lo >
New York City:
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/ny >
San Francisco Bay Area:
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/ba >
Washington D.C.:
< http://www.yahoo.com/r/wd >

U.S. States
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< http://www.yahoo.com/r/mm >

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Ralph Tegtmeier is the co-founder and principal of fantomaster.com GmbH (Belgium), < http://fantomaster.com/ >, a company specializing in webmasters software development, industrial-strength cloaking and search engine positioning services.

He has been a web marketer since 1994 and is editor-in-chief of fantomNews, a free newsletter focusing on search engine optimization, available at: < http://fantomaster.com/fantomnews-sub.html > You can contact him at mailto:fneditor@fantomaster.com
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