299.00 for a Yahoo Listing

[ILoveDMOZ]

If I pay the 299.00 for the Listing Review about how much traffic or page rank increase can I expect?

Since we are in a recession, does anyone know if Yahoo is planning on givnig us all a break on the price?

Thanks

[jkadin]

you can never tell why waste your money to get listed in the first place . You want traffic submit it it to social bookmarkins like reddit digg and other bookmarking sites.

[buldozerceto]

if you profit from the business I suggest you to submit your listing to yahoo dir .

[DJMC]

You can submit to DMOZ and wait for up to one year........

Meanwhile, expect Y! to lower price AFTER they are bought by Bill Gates in the bankruptcy sale...

[vansterdam]

Don't expect any traffic from a Yahoo directory listing. Nobody really uses that directory much...or any other directories for that matter. You do get a backlink from a high PR website that happens to republish their directory on their other country domains...yahoo.co.uk, yahoo.ca, etc. So SEO-wise it is a decent investment, but there are much better ways to use your online marketing budget. Only pay for it if you have a moderate budget.

I wouldn't expect a price break anytime soon. Yahoo is not the best run company. They have been getting away with gouging people with $299 directory submission rates for year. So why would they lower the price and risk losing some profit?

[Fluxos]

Direct traffic.. very little.

But SERP, it might help...

[ultimatemediagroup]

If I were you I would use the 299 in advertising on other sites, traffic-wise you will not get much unless you have a huge pagerank already.

[xtazi35]

I would rather build links on 1000 blogs from pr 0 to pr 5 rather than spending $299 in yahoo. If you have an established site then you can go for yahoo because in that case you would be less worried about traffic. Page Rank will help if you list your site on yahoo dir.

[jimbob]

I agree the fee is rather steep but seo wise it's one of the most trusted directories along with dmoz, business.com and best of the web. If your return on investment is above £75 per unit/lead/sale then well worth it for seo alone.

Another point to make is that it states that the payment is for one years entry but i recently submitted changes to a listing i had in there 3 months past its expiry date and they still changed it and it is still listed in their directory.

[robinko]

You will get strong one backlink from yahoo but I think you should save money and get backlink from social bookmark and forum.