You also receive PR3-PR5 backlinks from the Canada dir, the UK & Ireland dir, the Asia dir, the India dir, and for about 2 weeks or so you get listed in the "whats new page". So $300 is for about 5-6 links. I guess you can argue that paying $50 to a directory with the 5 deep link feature can be just as good, but perhaps the Yahoo! dir has more prestige?
If you really want to know just try it for the first year (if money is not a problem). The reviews I have read are about 50% Positive 50% Negative.
I would still suggest Yahoo Directory if your site's official name (the text link that would appear in Y directory) is a term you are interested in competing with. For example if your site is lamps.com and your Y! directory listing text will be "Lamp" that is GREAT. But if your official site's name is lampsunlimited.com, there is not much value in text link of "lamps unlimited"
it is waste, if u invest this in google adwords you will get some good traffic. it u want some high PR backlinks, try digg.
It's worth about $30.00 a year, $300 is way too expensive! Even at $30.00 a year, it's questionable whether you'll get your money back in traffic or search engine improvement.
I got one of my websites into yahoo and it made no difference at all. I did hear you can submit to yahoo in some countries for free still, but it take quite some time to get listed if at all.
It may help you improve your pagerank...but why not spend those $300 in different other ways to promote your site...YAHOO is just ONE directory!
Thats right. Try Directory submissions to free directories. They cost around 100$ for 1000 directory or even cheaper. You already have saved 200$. Use it in ADwords or link building.
I can't get over the fact that the $300 is for a review with no guarantees of inclusion. How long do they really take in reviewing a site?!
$300 just to get reviewed? That's a lot of money if you ask me but if the client doesn't have a problem with it then i guess it's ok.