Are you a content writer or an SEO man? Are you a web developer? What would you charge to work on the content of our website and get it up to scratch? I actually built the site myself from scratch and I appreciate your comments. I knew I had the same H1 tag on all pages but my SEO campaign is aimed at driving traffic to our home page. SEO friendly URL's, having read about them in the past, are no longer necessary as far as Google is concerned. The can handle the 'gobbldy-gook' php URL's and index the pages just as readily. From the forums I've read on this subject, you can do more harm than good by implementing SEO friendly URL's which can sometime cause pages to be de-indexed. At the time when I was reading about it, I thought, 'not worth the risk'. I may re-visit this though. Also, the keywords stuffing was an error on my part. As an amateur at the time of constructing the site and the first few hundred products, I never knew any better. Now, our newer products have simpler meta-tags. You mentioned becoming a client of yours. What can you offer us in SEO terms and what would it cost?
To me it wasn't worth it, try spending on other things first and only do it when you have some extra funds available.
If your website is just starting out its much better that you spend your money on other SEO services - think how many services you could buy for seo on DP. If your site is doing well at a later stage and you have explored everything else and can afford it then pay the $300.
No At best it represents an ok link these days [and even that's being debated], at worst it's a waste of $300. Over the past 18 months I've seen Yahoo's search market share fall through the floor to the point where it now only brings about 10% of all traffic to my collective websites. That figure used to be 23% a while back and back then it was a different story, but Yahoo's nothing but a walking corpse these days which even Microsoft no longer seems inclined to buy. Nope... not worth three hundred bucks in my opinion...
We have a jobs website in Pakistan Naukrify and are listed in the Yahoo directory. We have found it a useful place to get an authority link as I have noticed it is one of the few directories which has inner pages with page rank also. It is expensive but if you want to compete in the big league it might be worth it...
It depends on the competition of your keywords, if you are in an extremely competitive niche then I would say it wont get you to the top of the SE, however, if it is a smaller less competitive niche then I would say that it could make the difference between 1st and 2nd rank. Overall I would say that you could get someone to submit articles and do social bookmarking for the same price and your links would be more diversified - which google likes.
I had fly from 4. page to 1. page just by adding my link to yahoo directory. And yes, as you said competitive is not so much.
If i had to choose between $300 for a yahoo directory listing or the same amount on PPC, i would choose a yahoo directory listing, if its for a long term site.
I agree as a directory Yahoo has a pagerank of 8 and even the inner page where our site is listed in pagerank 4
You must not waste your money investing it simply to a directory. I would rather suggest you to build some good quality back links to your site with these money.
Same as with any other high-cost directory: Not a must, only pay for it when you can afford it. It's perfectly possible to succeed without having a link from them.
No!! Nobody will ever find your site there. And google doesn't like when webmasters are buying backlinks.
I can tell you that about 50% of websites that rank in the top of google places do this, i think its a service for local businesss more than it is for websites in general, if you have a local business and you target local keywords i would suggest you get it, if not, its very hard to tell imo, based solely on experience and researching ton of websites and what makes them rank