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: < http://www.betterwhois.com >

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 w >

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 >

About the Author

Ralph Tegtmeier is the co-founder and principal of

fantomaster.com Ltd. (UK) and fantomaster.com GmbH

(Belgium), < http://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