Okay I now show up in the directory, and I must say everythig is going wonderful. I rank 3rd and 5th now and traffic has increased a ton. I'm not sure exactly how much traffic Y! directory has sent me but everytime I look at the tracker I see external links from them. I will get a total and let everyone know. What I would say is the 300$ is so worth it from what I've seen so far.
I don't think you can make any correlation between the recent trend upwards in search engine rankings and the yahoo directory listing. I just think it's from your other marketing efforts more then likely. Yahoo just very recently had a SERP's update so I think it won't be for a while before you can make any solid assumptions. Did you get good anchor text?
Well my rankings were dropping utnill I got into the directory. No one really knows though for sure. My anchor text is just my domain name....I guess it could be worse.
Back then, my site was doing great in Google & MSN, but it was having hard time showing up in any of Y! pages results. About 3 days after they listed my site a bunch of my pages started showing up in the first page result and number one on some my keywords. Even though my site was listed for free they still pushed it to the top of the first page. It's been like ever since and trafic is great. Thanks Y!
Hmm Yahoo directory seems to work good. But did you even ocntact that guy for only $60? Just seeing if thats a real deal. Yahoo directory is a perm. lsiting and not yearly correct?