Or would you take that money and buy a tool like.... aweber and use the left over cash to pay a good writer to write PR, blogs, article directories? I'm looking for some buzz but also long term SEO. I'm almost tempted at paying Yahoo $300. I've paid about $75 in featured listing in PR3 and PR4 directories in the last few days. And submitted to about 200+ free directories. Your input is welcome. I'm a newb
if you have already done the other things, like quality directory submission, blog posts, free directory submission, social bookmarking, etc! and still have money for promotions then you can try the yahoo dir. cheers!
I wouldn't waste $300 in Yahoo's directory, you 'd better try links exchange, buy links or advertising
I haven't done some of those mentioned, like: blogs free dir. submissions social bookmarking PR web My downfall is I'm not a quality writer and I know my grammar isn't good enough to do good quality written promos to help my company. I've PM'd some writers on this forum to work for me, but when they see my niche is guitars, musical instrument sales related, they don't reply back. I also had an idea of buying a $300 guitar and promoting a free guitar give-away. I'm just not sure how to pull that off yet.
People who pay for this sort of listing, usually have a much larger budget for the development of their site and recognize the quality of traffic Yahoo Directory can bring to them.
Seems like we get one of these threads once a week - If you do a search you will find all the answers you would ever want on this topic.
Trust me, as a forum owner and operator, I know how annoying it is when the same subject is bashed out daily/weekly. However, I've done a search and I didn't find anything quality that was helpful enough for me. I also forgot to mention that I promo my site through signature on relevant message boards. I'm a long time poster on some of the largest MB on the subject of guitars, amps, gear (I had an estimate to advertise my banner for as much as $7k a month for banner space on these high traffic webforums). I thought after I started this online music auction, members from these message boards will run right over, sign up, and start participating.... Well that didn't happen as planned. So I tried selling gear for 1/8th of the worth. And that didn't seem to create the buzz that I was looking for either. I post youtube blogs of my gear (doing demos). That seems to help pretty good. I was just wondering, being Yahoo, if it is the "Be ALL" directory? I guess the answer is no. I'll just look for other ways to spend money. Say no to Yahoo!. /close topic.
I wouldn't even pay money to get in a directory, unless it delivered quality targeted traffic. I'd rather keep my $300 and buy a Wii or two high classed hookers for a threesome.
I wouldn't and my reason is that i currently cant afford to spend $300 yearly on one listing. Id keep the money and buy some food and warm clothing and do the seo myself. Or spread that $300 across a bunch of decent established directories, or maybe $150 on directories and $150 on whatever else you feel will compliment your seo efforts. Or start a competion and give the $300 away but make sure it really gets you noticed and is worth more than the prize money.
I would say $300 will make many featured and regular listings in good directories other then yahoo. One year $300 and nothing much then 2 to 3 unique visits per week. Also depends on your site and where they list you, can you please tell us about ur site ? Thanks.
I would say to buy it if you have the budget to also do other things. Do not reply on this as your one big effort as it should only be part of a much bigger effort - good luck...
I say try it out for a year and see what happens... Also theres a "forum directory" thats very high traffic and could do you justice but unfortunately i don't know the name of it... thx malcolm
We had a yahoo listing for a couple of our sites. One of the sites was listed around 1998, and we used to get massive traffic from yahoo. The other...not so much. It kind of depended, then, on which directory your site was listed in. Now - we hardly ever get traffic from Yahoo directory, even on the listing that used to pay off big time. It all changed when Yahoo stopped pulling from their own directory for search results.
i have submitted at least 20% of my websites to yahoo but that was more than a year ago when yahoo seemed to have more 'authority' Now i only pay to list the gambling sites there.
Personally I think $300 spread amongst some well organized, up to date independent directories would be better spent, and offer more overall exposure.
I wouldn't. I would invest $ 300 in other areas which would give me BETTER outputs in short time and Guaranteed.
The Final Word on the Yahoo! Directory Yahoo! Directory Listings and Google I still recommend submitting to Yahoo.