I am not sure how much the Directories help to bring traffic. I have very less traffic from directories, while traffic from Google has been always huge.
First of all, there is no such a thing as second in weight. For link from Yahoo, DMOZ, AMRAY, BOTW, Authority Directory etc. Google will give you the same 1 backlink but the question is if paying $300 for that 1 backlink make any sense if you can get one for free from Free directories such as DMOZ or AMRAY. If you look deeper, then you'll find that being listed in these 2 will give you more that 1 backlink. DMOZ in some cases will give 2 backlinks to your resources and AMRAY up to 16 backlinks and if that is not reason why paying $300 every year is ridicules proposition, then I don't know what it is. AMRAY is getting up to 100 of them every day but you are wrong because visitors you're talking about are coming from Yahoo search and not directory. How do I know? AMRAY Directory is NOT listed in Yahoooo Directory. fastreplies
Then you have huge problem if Google push you site behind 10M or remove your site from index for some violation all together. fastreplies
Well, somehow it doesn't surprise me that you never heard about 10 years old directory that has stricter inclusion rules to keep spammers away than Yahoo and DMOZ combined. fastreplies
$300 is not a big sum of money, but we can also do something with that amount of money. So I'm still thinking whether I should spend that money yearly.
Would you pay 300$ for link from Google homepage? They say that this is the price for editing, so i don't understand why you need to pay that annualy. Truth is yahoo and google that's a company which is making money, and lots of people forget about that. I don't understand one think, why we can't buy links? who said that? Every day, 1000000's of websites buying links, adverts etc.. This is clean business... Don't forget about that ..... I'm sure that when google and yahoo been starting their business they been doing same things what we do.
Of course, there are much better options for investing those $ 300, Yahoo Directory is simply one of the other options. For $300 you will get much more quality links, but if you want to be unique in some way and you have money why not investing this $300 in Yahoo.
I cant even see the video? But all I can see worthy in yahoo right now is their email service, groups, answers and domain service. I dont submit to yahoo directories myself.
a few years ago i registered one domain from Yahoo!, and then i gave up renew this domain, but they still charged me and i could not get any refund. so i will never use their services.
Did you follow the procedures to cancel the subscription or did you just not realize that the charge is automatically recurring? Once it's charged, you normally can't get a refund.
Why does Google not devalue the links from the Yahoo directory? They are profiteering from selling links. No one can argue that point. It goes without saying. According to Googles rules those links should carry a no follow tag.
Although the video depicts essential points about Yahoo Directory, the question about $300 remains doubtful.. On the other hand, I agree it is a old video.
Its quit self understood what is the quality of a good directory. If suppose a directory category say "real estate" has pr4 and the owner of this directory is even giving link to say "jewellery"(only because of pr4) site from their real estate page than they are selling links as there is no relevancy in giving the link. Such directories not worth to submit. Yahoo directory is a class directory and they provide links exactly in relevant category. So google never devalue links from yahoo directory and your site will get a greast boost ranking by having just 1 link from yahoo directory. So its worth $299 a year. I have many sites listed in yahoo directory and they are doing a great job in search engines with higher rankings. There are other good directories also with great editorial value and worth submitting like business.com, botw.org and even mastbusiness.com .