Yahoo Directory Listings - $299

For web sites that do not feature adult content or services, the Yahoo! Directory Submit service costs US$299 (nonrefundable) for each Directory listing that is submitted. Furthermore, for each listing accepted into the Directory, there is a recurring annual fee of US$299 to maintain the listing in the Directory for the subsequent year.

I want to submit my site to Yahoo dir but I have some concerns about not being accepted to the directory so that my $299 is going to garbage!

Does someone know the criterias to be accepted to Yahoo dir? Or can you tell me any link which explains how to be accepted to Yahoo paid dir?

Thanks

 

Here are some of the criteria:
https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/reference/submit
Scroll halfway down to the 'minimum site criteria'.

 

I am curious what the benefits of this is? That is quite a lot of money just to appear in a search engine.

 

the other option is free and just pray you make it in before the end of century

 

I like that! In fact, I pray a lot. My faith must for Yahoo must be low, because so far I've been unable to get my nonprofit site in under the free, noncommercial option for five years now.

 

My experience with Yahoo has been that if you don't pay Yahoo the $299 fee for what they like to call a 7-day review and listing and just make a free submission to them, all they will do is log your website into their data base and then forget about it. It will not appear in their search listings. But if you do pay their $299 fee, Yahoo will place your website somewhere in their search listings, depending upon the popularity of your keywords and how many other competitors you have that got into Yahoo before you did - and that's about all you can expect from your $299.

 

that $299 fee is kinda steep....yahoo should really drop their prices, they'd make more sales!