dannyboi Posting evidences here in public forum about what you got free accidentally is inviting trouble for yourself. Anyways I have tried another domain now so greedy huh
It was not hard when it started.. but you know spammers don't like peace and that is when it became difficult to get into such directories..
Are you sure it might by your mistake the url of yahoo directory is directory.yahoo.com are you listed here if yes then thats strange!!!
I tried to find some deep sub-categories inside Yahoo directory but I couldn't find any free submission link available. So, anandnadaar, you're really lucky; congrat!
k. I also have got several URLs in Yahoo directory total free. It was good ole days of 2002. Even that time Yahoo used to charge some money from commercial sites, but its definition of commercial site was limited to Mortgage and other similar sites or corporate sites. My sites and URLs are in yahoo since then and still going on.
There is no guarantee with free submissions that your site/sites will be "crawled". Paid submissions are guaranteed. It's the search engines job to find those keywords. If your content is good and you have used the right tag words it's a good chance they will submit them. Build yourself a google gadget for more free exposure. I have made several. Check google gadgets for reference. You'll see one for my domain googlevault.com sale 4-5 pages deep in "new" gadgets. It was right on the first page for awhile.
Non commercial URLs can be added freely - make your site non commercial and get in the directory then add your commercial aspects to your site