Can someone please answer me the following questions that have submitted a .com to Yahoo! Directory: 1) Did it increase your PR rank? If so what was your original and what did it go upto? 2) What increase in traffic did you get? Percentage or actual numbers would be great. Right now each visitor to my site is worth about $0.019 and Im trying to figure out if the $300 is cost-effective for me.
I have never paid to have a site listed in Yahoo. I did have a site I no longer own listed for free there a couple years back. It did get traffic, from Yahoo, a few visitors a day. Not alot, but might be cost-effective it would only take a couple of those visitors purchasing your product or service to make up for the $300 spent. You listing in Yahoo is just one backlink, and you will be lucky if that page has a PR of 4 or 5 (if it's a really deep category PR will be lower). If PR is what you are mainly after, don't pay that money to Yahoo. $300/year can be spent elsewhere and give you many, many more quality backlinks.
Thanks for the advice. The section I was looking at has a PR 5: http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/Pennsylvania/Cities/Philadelphia/Health/ It has little competition in there though. Even the sites listed are not my competitors. What other directories that have a high PR ranking for Philadelphia/Health could you recommend?
i don't think it's worth it...the traffic is really low(as i've heard many complain), and the pagerank is not worth it, considering that it's only one page...my oppinion is that you'll be better off with some paid directorys(especially niche)
Here's my two cents: No, I don't think it increased my PR rank. My suggestion to you is: don't submit your site in hopes of getting direct traffic from the directory. Most of my traffic flow is from natural search results in Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The main reason why you would want to be listed there is for the strong backlink to your site. It helps in an indirect way; meaning you won't receive much traffic from it, but it may strengthen your overall placements within natural search results. If you want to spend some money, I would recommend the following directories: Business.com, JoeAnt, UncoverTheNet and BOTW.org. In my opinion, the best bang for your buck is Business.com ($199) because you get links from all of their partner sites as well, some of which are big names.
Lol i never pay for directory listing that money i would invest in other ways like baner on network sites or adwords ... Regards
If you already have a high traffic website which generates good revenue then it is probably worth it. Otherwise you will be just throwing you money away.
1) Most couldn't provide you with an accurate answer - unless this was your only link or possibly the only new link added between updates, you really have no way of knowing how much it contributes to your PR. 2) I get a fair amount of traffic from the directory. If it were a paid listing, it would pay for itself many times over. I'll guess the category and where you're listed has alot to do with traffic, and the type of site would have an effect on income. It basically comes down to $.82 per day for a listing. You have to decide if it could be worth it to you or not.
I think folk are forgetting a link from the Yahoo Directory would carry with it a heck of a lot of trust if nothing else. I believe it would be beneficial for new sites to be listed in the Yahoo Directory based on this alone. Pete
free submission at yahoo really takes a very long time. paying yahoo is just too costly. I suggest you submit the link to yahoo for free and do the same at dmoz and forget that you ever submitted the site to them. one day you might be lucky and come to know that your site is lisited!
I once have my site listed on yahoo for free and get tons of hits/ day. Too bad i didnt own the site anymore
I’ve been trying to decide if I’d submit a site to Yahoo’s Directory. Then I stumbled on the following info on a Google web page: Webmaster Guidelines Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site…. … Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites. Is this an old page from Google or do they really value backlinks from the Yahoo Directory? http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769
It seems so, one of my site is listed in yahoo directory and it got good ranking in google for related keyword. Just for the info, the site was up in 2004, I bought it in mid 2005 and it had already been listed in yahoo directory and got high rank in google. Considering it's still new, I think google still values yahoo backlinks until now...
It is worth it. Because it looks like yahoo mixes directory listings when before presenting the search result set to the end user. So make sure atleast few words you intend to target is included as a description for the site.
it is a pretty old page. a few years, or more. why wouldn't google value the link from yahoo? it is a human reviewed listing in one of the internet's most respected destinations. a listing in a relevant category with a title and description that describes your site for users and spiders.
With thousands of directory sites out there, I'd think Google would be looking for natural incoming links and would discount directory links. For an e-commerce site, $299 is a small price to pay to prop your SERPs up. And with Y! a direct competitor now, Google is only helping them by valuing their directory listings.