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Is Yahoo’s Directory Worth Submitting
To?
There are numerous reasons for webmasters to submit their sites to various
web directories populating the Internet. The positives of having your site listed
in a popular directory have been discussed in previous articles and on a multitude
of search-related forums.
Would you consider paying a recurring fee to be in Yahoo's Web Directory? Discuss
at WebProWorld.
Being listed in a popular directory benefits your site's popularity and may directly
impact a site's SERP position. However, is it worth $299 (minimum) to have your
site listed in Yahoo's web directory? That
depends on who you ask.
 According
to Yahoo's page for directory
listing information, sites without adult content are required to pay $299.
With your investment in hand, Yahoo then, "provides expedited review of web sites
you submit for possible inclusion in the Yahoo! Directory. We will respond
to your request within 7 business days." Sites that contain adult content are
charged $600 for possible inclusion.
Keep in mind that these fees are recurring. If you've paid to be in Yahoo's directory,
you must continue to pay; provided you want to maintain whatever benefit being
listed in their directory gives you. Also remember Yahoo's policy concerning paid
submissions:
"Use of the Yahoo! Express program does not ensure that your submission will
be accepted for inclusion in the Yahoo! Directory. Final judgment on the suitability,
placement, and description of all sites submitted to Yahoo! is solely the responsibility
of the Yahoo! directory team."
With these stipulations in mind, I return to the original point of this article:
Is paying for submission to Yahoo's directory worth the money? Some support it;
some do not.
One popular question concerning Yahoo Express is "How will being listed in Yahoo's
directory benefit my Google ranking?" This question stems from a growing
belief that Google may not value directory listings as much as they used to.
Anthony Parsons gives a concise response to those doubting directory listings,
"Whether Google has dropped weight from directories or not is irrelevant really,
as the link is still counted and still from a unique IP… you ARE going to benefit
regardless."
 The
question was brought up on WebProWorld's
forum as well. A poster asked "I am thinking of listing of my website on the
Yahoo directory for their express fee of $300. My question: is it worth it or
not?" As expected, responses were mixed. Bill Hartzer answered pragmatically,
saying if your competitors were there, you should be too. According
to Bill, "Yes, it's definitely worth it. Forget about the PageRank benefit,
PR doesn't mean much nowadays. Rather, it's the on-topic link from a very reputable,
powerful site that counts." Which is an excellent point when talking about SERP
positioning. Most, if not all, search engines place a high value on relevant links
pointing to a site.
Of course, there are opposing views also. The majority of them have a hard time
justifying the recurring price. Their counter point involves a number of directories
that require no payment for submission consideration (DMOZ, BlueFind, Zeal, Jayde,
and so on). David Wallace, SEW
forum moderator, had these thoughts: "I don't even submit paid listings anymore.
There are so many other directories out there now that will help to build your
link popularity, some for free and others for a lot cheaper than $299 a year."
However, the consensus seems to be that there is some value from a Yahoo directory
listing. In a long
discussion at the ihelpyou forums, Doug Heil, administrator of ihelpyou, says,
"A Yahoo directory listing helps with the Yahoo search engine visibility. That
by itself makes the 300 bucks worth it." Just be prepared to pay a recurring $300/600.
Comment on this article
in WebProWorld.
Chris Richardson
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The
Google Economy
 By
Joe
Griffin
 Understanding
the nature of Google can be quite a daunting task. Clients ask frequently why
it takes so long to see good results in Google, and why it can often times can
be near impossible to achieve a top 10 ranking for a highly competitive keyword
on the world's largest search engine.
The answer is simple. Google makes friends with the popular people (used in metaphor
to represent websites). Google does not care about the new kid in school. Essentially,
Google has built its spidering, indexing, storing and retrieval methodology economics
around the popularity of the web. If you always hang out with popular people you
will always be popular….and it's just that simple.
Why should Google spend time and money to aimlessly spider the entire web? I don't
know about you but I'm sure not paying them to index my results. Why should they
have to pay bandwidth, storage, and technology costs to spider everyone all the
time? Do you pay their bills? Google spends its time worrying about the popular
kids in school…they could care less about the new kid. Until you make friends
with other popular kids consider yourself invisible.
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the Full Article
About the Author:
Joe Griffin is the President of http://www.SubmitAWebsite.com
Founded in 1997, Submitawebsite, Inc., "The Industry’s Original Submission Company,"
is a leading provider of search engine marketing services including natural search
engine optimization, xml feed syndication, contextual advertising, and search
engine advertising/pay-per click management. Submitawebsite, Inc. also offers
web design and development, credit card processing, and web hosting. Stopdog.com
Tel: 480.949.6830 Cell: 602.882.1979 joeg@submitawebsite.com |
Can you spare some advice?
Today's post comes from Grinler.
Grinler has been keeping track of their site stats and have noticed that all the
major search engines
have crawled the site a lot except for Yahoo. Google hit the site over 17,000
times since Oct. 29,
MSN hit it over 4,000, and Ask Jeeves hit it over 7,000 but not Yahoo. It sounds
odd but it is happening
to them. I for one have no answers or advice to give them.
Think you can help Grinler with their problem? Tell us your
thoughts at WebProWorld.
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Why
won't yahoo index my site?
By Grinler
 Maybe
someone can help me. I am having a tough time getting Yahoo to index my site.
Heres the stats:
GoogleBot has hit a page on my site 17,133 times since October 29 MSN Search has
hit a page on my over 4000 times at around the same time frame Ask Jeeves has
hit me 7000+ in the same time frame Heck, Archive.org has hit me 1100 times since
then. Yahoo? THey have hit me 553 times!
I really do not understand why i am not seeing more indexing from yahoo. Google
is showing 1100 links pointing back to me (though I am sure there is more out
there) so its not like there are not enough sites out there that yahoo should
not be able to find me.
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