Comments on: Jeremy leaves Yahoo!

By: Mert

Mert — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:36:10 +0000

The fact that he is joining Craigslist tells me volumes in terms of why he wanted to leave yahoo. A closed box called yahoo will truly be a pandora’s box. Craig’s list should be so much fun now with Jeremy’s free spirit. Congrats, Jeremy.

By: natalie

natalie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:36:24 +0000

Hi I was compelled to join in as I find Yahoo! extremely annoying, not only are the useful services/pages I like to use unavailable most of the time but when I asked the search submit pro sales team in the uk if we could setup as an approved agency and carry out this activity for our clients, (client had particularly requested this) Yahoo! responded that actually Yahoo!
“does not have enough resources within the company to do all the background work, so please don’t sell this into your clients and by the way we don’t have the resources to train you either” in my opinion this is complete waste of their employees talents, skills and ideas and I cannot see Yahoo taking over the search world just yet, if this is the attitude they have to paid submissions.

By: ex-Yahoo

ex-Yahoo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:37:54 +0000

You guys have destroyed Yahoo! You should be ashamed of yourself!

By: Stiri Azco

Stiri Azco — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:48:46 +0000

I heard that Jeremy was a great guy. He was a hard worker.
So i wish him the best there.

By: Eric Ward

Eric Ward — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:50:46 +0000

I thought Jeremy did a fantastic job. Folks like Matt and Jeremy didn’t go into this biz with any idea they’d become so vertically famous for it, or become such convenient targets for criticism. I doubt most of us would last a week having to endure it while also having to smile through it.

By: bob rains

bob rains — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:36:11 +0000

“the opportunity to work in a much smaller company recently presented itself and it was simply too interesting to pass up. I’ll say more about that in the coming weeks.”

I can’t wait to hear what his next project is about… any clues out there I’ve missed?

By: Jay P

Jay P — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:14:41 +0000

Google is smart in the webmaster outreach.

Yahoo marketing folk do appear to overlook the webmasters. It is possible they do not know that the webmasters determine advertising placement and spending for the vast majority of small to mid-size business web sites?
Maybe.

By: Tom Forrest

Tom Forrest — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:32:26 +0000

Hello Asia,

I was looking for a way to contact you on your web site. I did not find any way to contact you. Would you please email me at:

tomforrest@htpcompany.com

I want to ask for your help with all my years of Yahoo problems, perhaps you can give me a contact at Yahoo. I sent an email directly to Jeremy asking for his help and he has not repled to me. I did not want to do any more Yahoo bashing on Matt’s blog.

Also I have some good SEO articles I wanted to show you.

I hope to hear from you.

By: Asia

Asia — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:57:19 +0000

@Jeremy and @Matt

Of the two of you, I’m not sure which one of you requires less Advil to ease headaches.

1. Google’s communication with Webmasters isn’t always well taken and I’m sure Matt gets his fair share of heartache.

2. Yahoo’s lack of communication – er yea…

I’ve always had a problem with Yahoo’s non-communication. Majority of my issues come from the lack of Customer Service for paid products. Such as the Directory or Yahoo Ads. It’s like Microsoft, if you contact their office, you are sent to an offshore office, where there is little understood and nothing accomplished – so I bought an iMac. This was my experience with Yahoo and therefore, we removed all ads and padded the Google budget.

It wasn’t until 2 years ago, when I approached Tim at PubCon – he put me in touch directly with someone in Search where we able to move past our dislike for Yahoo. Communication is key – I could never understand why Yahoo continued to close communications with advertisers – it was their main downfall, don’t they know that it’s best to have 1 million $10,000 advertisers than one $1,000,000,000 advertiser? (See -> Google Adwords.)

Anyway… Goodluck with your move Jeremy! I hope it’s a positive one, and please be sure to let us all know where you are (You gotta love that link juice we’ll pass on for ya!)

By: Marek

Marek — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:54:20 +0000

It’s a zero-sum game, I think. A “ton of good karma” that will follow Jeremy will be leaving Yahoo for good…