Of the free downloaded info from the Make Your Site Sell - 5 Pillar Affiliate program web site the pages on Yahoo Submission seemed the easiest and most promising to implement. I have tried to get www.TamarEmbroideries.com listed in Yahoo a couple of times and failed, so this should be a good test. I have managed to get the site into most other directories including two listings from miningco.com (now about.com):
crossstitch.about.com/msub34.htm
crossstitch.miningco.com/msub34.htm
needlepoint.miningco.com/msub13.htm
| Yahoo Submission Details: | |
| Title: | Tamar Embroideries |
| Description: | design and produce embroidery, cross stitch, tapestry and silk painting kits |
| Possible Categories: | dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Arts_and_Crafts/Crafts/Needlecrafts/Embroidery/ dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Arts_and_Crafts/Crafts/Needlecrafts/Cross_stitch/ www.yahoo.co.uk/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Arts_and_Crafts/Design_Arts/Textiles/Embroidery/ www.yahoo.co.uk/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Arts_and_Crafts/Crafts/Needlecrafts/Cross_stitch/ * 2 * www.yahoo.co.uk/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Arts_and_Crafts/Crafts/Needlecrafts/Embroidery/ * 1 * |
| Comments: | Tamar Embroideries is a new company that has been in business for just over a year, designing our own range of cross stitch, tapestry and silk painting kits. We have had some favorable editorial in a number of UK craft magazines including Creative Crafts and Crafts Beautiful. We have also been mentioned on the crossstitch and needlepoint pages of about.com (formerly The MiningCo): crossstitch.about.com/msub34.htm needlepoint.miningco.com/msub13.htm |
| Other Details: | www.TamarEmbroideries.com Tamar Embroideries, Little Honeycombe, Tamar Way, Gunnislake, Cornwall, PL18 9DH, England. Email: Admin@TamarEmbroideries.com Tel: 01822 833099 |
| Notes on the new submission - As per the book I have shortened the Title and Description
fields dramatically and removed anything that could be considered 'marketing hype' such as 'beautiful', 'unique',
'attractive'. Maybe I should have also left out the silk painting as this does not really fit under embroidery
- maybe the web site should be split into two - one for embroidery and one for silk painting. I will probably submit
to the .co.uk directory as we are a uk based company - also we do not accept credit cards (yet) which makes us
less attractive to an international audience. One of the best tips from the documentation is to write down what
you have done - I keep trying to remember what I did the last time both on amcho which succeeded and tamarembroideries
which did not. By documenting it all, mistakes should be avoided, while success repeated (I hope). For information
I have tried to reconstruct my previous yahoo submission from memory - see it here
Having finally got all the info together the site was submitted to yahoo on Friday 23 July 1999. Unfortunately, after all that work, the site was not even visited. I have decided against resubmitting the site as after getting involved with the Moorland Exhibition at Princetown Tamar Embroideries has expanded from being an embroidery kit maker to being a general supplier of art and craft materials, so the next submission will have to wait till the site has been rewritten to more closely reflect what the company does now. In the mean time I have decided to get a different client into yahoo - please see the next page! |
Other Pages on Yahoo Submission:
searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/yahoo/
st0.yahoo.com/vw/secrets.html