Is it worth the $299 to submit an ecommerce website to Yahoo Directory?
valentine30528 asked:
If been trying to increase my site’s visibility in the search engines and increase google page rank. Is the yahoo directory worth $299 per year?
If been trying to increase my site’s visibility in the search engines and increase google page rank. Is the yahoo directory worth $299 per year?
Pass on the frontdoor approach for submitting your domain name to Yahoo’s Directory for a fee. Here’s the backdoor link to submit your website to Yahoo Directory for free:
Good luck!
No. There are lots of free directories available, doing a little research will yield you more than you can possibly submit to. Yahoo directory is one of the oldest and best regarded, and carries good pagerank – that said, so does DMOZ.org which is free (although expect to wait a looong time before your site is reviewed).
The benefits of spending $299 with Yahoo can easily be beaten by spending $299 worth of time (say you work at a rate of $30/hr, thats 10 hours) submitting to these lesser directories – in that time you could probably get around 150-200 submissions done comfortably, of which at least 75% should accept your link. Thats 100+ links for the price of 1.
If you are trying to get more traffic, then it is worth to submit your website to yahoo directory. However, yahoo directory are not helping you in google page rank since it is nofollow