What is Yahoo! Japan’s “Business Express”?
In the beginning, Yahoo! Japan was a manually comprised collection of websites that you could search among and view. It has since become an automatic search system that is similar to Google, although it still carries a “registered websites” layer beneath the new system. When a website has been successfully registered at Yahoo! Japan, it has been checked and approved by human editors at Yahoo! Japan and given the status of a registered website at Yahoo! Japan. This search engine provides an option of searching only among the registered websites, just like other options, such as searching only for images, news and maps. If your website is registered and included in this database, there will be an extra direct link from Yahoo! Japan to your website. Having this extra link is a good thing for SEO. So how do you register your website? If your website is not commercial, you can simply complete the form. If your website is commercial, you are required to pay the application fee and go though
