If you have paid to be in the Yahoo directory...

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by Canadianbacon, Jan 26, 2006.

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    How did it effect your ranking? After looking at a few key words, i noticed that more than half the sites on the first page were listed in yahoo directory.
     
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    lorien1973 Notable Member

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    I think yahoo directory works best with sites that have keywords in the title.

    When I was listed, my linked title was: Online Discount Mart

    Other sites that were like : keyword1-keyword-2.com or something got Keyword1 Keyword2.

    Kinda silly. Yahoo directory is still full of junk too, even though its paid for.
    You get sites like
    exclamation-exclamation-flowers.com as !!Flowers and get the top spot in a category. Yeah. That's fair :)
     
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    I got a website in last Monday. I'm (passively) waiting for the data to spread to the International directories (UK, Australia, Asia, India and Canada) - this takes approximately 8 days. I haven't seen any effect so far. Not that I expect it to work that fast, or have a noticeable effect on my rankings. I'm not yet ranking for my main keyword (the site is only a month old) so I can't spot a difference anyway.
     
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    It helped me a little, but I prefer to be ranked by their search engine.
    Anyone have any stats on usage or search traffic versus directory traffic at Yahoo?
     
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    I had 0 traffic from them. It is still a good link but I am not sure if it is worth the $300. msn directory (sbd) is by far better for a fraction of the price. (direct links, 10 internal links and it brought traffic)
     
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    Listing in Yahoo Directory last 2 month helped me a bit too as it was taken my site forever to be indexed. At least, now I found my homepage to be visible within front 1-5 pages for the keywords I chose. I am now trying the so-called blog and ping method to see if I can get the rest of the site indexed faster.
    Mhamdi, where is the url for the paid submission to msn directory? I am quite ok on msn but am curious that there is a paid submission to msn directory. Thanks.
     
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