greenmonkey
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- Mar 18, 2004
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Would it be possible for someone at DMOZ to provide the guidelines on Yahoo! Stores. If there are not any perhaps it might help to have some.
I am invloved with two stores that are refused listings b/c of the Yahoo! infrastructure I use. THe site I am most concerned with, Euro Jersey Imports [http:www/eurojerseyimports.com] submitted in the http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Sports/Basketball/Apparel/ category.
While this site contains 100% unique, and in some cases, proprietary, content it has been denied inclusion into your directory b/c on checkout the URL changes from www.euro... to order.store.yahoo. Older sites on the legacy platform manage to get listings a good part of the time with their store.yahoo.myurl URL. THe new Yahoo Platfrorm allows one to keep an "ordinary" URL for everything until the shopping cart and subsequent checkout flow.
I thought this would be better for search engines and directories so I chose this path (I could have used the old method of store.yahoo.myurl). To create the method I have chosen I created a consistent look and feel in the cart and from anywhere in the cart or checkout pages all links go back to pages with the www.eurojerseyimports.com address.
I use Yahoo as my cart/commerce solution b/c they are a respected company and offer the perfect solution for my business. My content as mentioned is completely unique (and popular if attributed to sales). On the site status forum I was told via an editor-poster that my site constitued an affiliate relationship. This is not the case...Yahoo simply hosts the cart. We use a hosted merchant solution so we do not have to pay an IT professional (couldn't if we wanted to) to manage gateways, secure servers etc. This solution allows good ideas to propagate where they would have been stifled several years ago.
What is the policy regarding a Yahoo hosted store. Should we use the store.yahoo.url method. The method allowed by Yahoo MErchant Solutions seems like a better idea yet we are still being penalized. I'll re-structure but what should we do and what is the proper method in order to be listed in DMOZ. Do we have to switch to another vendor such as Powerful Hosting in order to be included. That does not make much sense.
We have another unrelated store on the old system. Any suggestions would be much appreciated and surely save a lot of people, including yourselves, a lot of time. It would also allow some sites with good, rich content, admittance into your directory and exposure to more people who are looking for it.
Thanks for your time
Keith
I am invloved with two stores that are refused listings b/c of the Yahoo! infrastructure I use. THe site I am most concerned with, Euro Jersey Imports [http:www/eurojerseyimports.com] submitted in the http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Sports/Basketball/Apparel/ category.
While this site contains 100% unique, and in some cases, proprietary, content it has been denied inclusion into your directory b/c on checkout the URL changes from www.euro... to order.store.yahoo. Older sites on the legacy platform manage to get listings a good part of the time with their store.yahoo.myurl URL. THe new Yahoo Platfrorm allows one to keep an "ordinary" URL for everything until the shopping cart and subsequent checkout flow.
I thought this would be better for search engines and directories so I chose this path (I could have used the old method of store.yahoo.myurl). To create the method I have chosen I created a consistent look and feel in the cart and from anywhere in the cart or checkout pages all links go back to pages with the www.eurojerseyimports.com address.
I use Yahoo as my cart/commerce solution b/c they are a respected company and offer the perfect solution for my business. My content as mentioned is completely unique (and popular if attributed to sales). On the site status forum I was told via an editor-poster that my site constitued an affiliate relationship. This is not the case...Yahoo simply hosts the cart. We use a hosted merchant solution so we do not have to pay an IT professional (couldn't if we wanted to) to manage gateways, secure servers etc. This solution allows good ideas to propagate where they would have been stifled several years ago.
What is the policy regarding a Yahoo hosted store. Should we use the store.yahoo.url method. The method allowed by Yahoo MErchant Solutions seems like a better idea yet we are still being penalized. I'll re-structure but what should we do and what is the proper method in order to be listed in DMOZ. Do we have to switch to another vendor such as Powerful Hosting in order to be included. That does not make much sense.
We have another unrelated store on the old system. Any suggestions would be much appreciated and surely save a lot of people, including yourselves, a lot of time. It would also allow some sites with good, rich content, admittance into your directory and exposure to more people who are looking for it.
Thanks for your time
Keith
