Paying for yahoo dir listing?

Good idea? Anyone get in without paying?

waste of money IMO. no one uses the directory-- they search.

If you're running a business and you can get your page on a pr 7 directory page, then I think it's worth it. I wouldn't pay 300 a year for a pr 6 listing. For a not-for-profit site you should just submit your site, make sure you do this every 3 weeks because they delete the whole backlog every 3 weeks. And before you submit, your site should already have good traffic and a lot of good content and NO banners, otherwise they will never add it for free.

I've been trying to get in for 2 years without success so don't get your hopes up too high.

Has anyone paid the fee and felt that it contributed to boosting their PR, indexing, crawling priority, traffic, etc?

Originally Posted by dutchbb

...And before you submit, your site should already have good traffic and a lot of good content and NO banners, otherwise they will never add it for free.

I've been trying to get in for 2 years without success so don't get your hopes up too high.

Than how come you've never gotten in?

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Has anyone paid the fee and felt that it contributed to boosting their PR, indexing, crawling priority, traffic, etc?

Yes, I'm wondering the same.

Anyone have a good PR checker?

Originally Posted by tavenger5

Than how come you've never gotten in?

I think it's because I use banners and they don't like dutch sites or something

I know that someone did pay for PR6 and he said straight away that this was a waste of money ..

I did end up paying for this and was included in the directory in Mar. I've seen no change in anything. In fact, if you want to see what's going on with yahoo for me at the moment: Another Drop in Yahoo Organic Traffic

BIG waste of money.

I would take the time and money and work on getting a good back link system set up. That seems to be better than the yahoo directory.