I want to pay Yahoo $299 to list at Yahoo directory, how do you think ? is it worth ? How many traffic I can get ? Thanks
This exact question has been asked and answered many times. You can do a search to see the many different opinions. The short answer, yahoo directory isn't usually going to produce a lot of traffic, but it should help you in rankings with yahoo and google.
Google and other search engines place a lot of trust in Yahoo's Directory which results in high and quick page rank.
one of my client's site ranks well in yahoo results,after been in yahoo directory.but seems only little help in google ranking.
If you are established and want a boost. SURE. If not. NO - spend it on other things. I'm in the Yahoo Dir and I get minimal traffic from it. It's just good for PR and of course Page Strength as SeoMoz takes it into consideration with Wiki & Dmoz.
It works out to about $25/monthly. I have read posts like this and some people say it worked for them, others thought it was a waste of money. My site is 3 years old and it does okay in G & Msn but Yahoo, terrible rankings so last week I paid the $299. I will update in a few weeks to see if getting in the directory increased my position in the serps.
Yahoo use the yahoo directory listing title and description of your homepage in their results, you can actually lose traffic because of that, homepage wise anyway.
I think you should Invest it in Yahoo Directory, because it will help your site improve ranking in Yahoo and Google too Also a Good PR Backlink
Can you explain how you would lose traffic? I got an email my site was excepted, and it would show up in the directory in 2-4 days. It didn't say what the title, and description was.
Yahoo directory doesn't allow keyword title and description in your submission. Since in most cases yahoo search pulls the data from your directory listing, your page in the search results won't show up as it does in your meta description (with keywords in title etc) it will just show up as your sitename. The title tag is an important part of ranking, which is how you could lose rankings for that page, i have anyway.
because the newest thing is charging exorbitant amounts of money just to get somewhat noticed on the internet
I did this a while ago. I made a thread on it that tracked my progress. At first it was amazing I shot all the way up to #4 with a keyword that has 30,000,000 results. I stayed there for about 2-3 weeks bringing in a total of about 50,000 uniques. That was back when I had ypn which was making like 1,000-1,500 a day =). After the 3 weeks was up though I started to fall back down. I didn't change anything on my site or anything I just fell for no reason. I'm now like #100 and no one ever finds my site. They also change your title and description and you have no way to change it back. Instead of having an informative title it just shows your domain name. All in all it was worth it for me because of ypn paying so well. If you have adsense and you're not making a decent amount per click I wouldn't do it if I was you. It also was no help for my google rank it still stayed the same. Hope this post helps a little.