| Paid or free listing on Yahoo
Is there a difference? |
seamus
msg:478227 | 5:30 pm on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I paid to have a site to be reviewed by Yahoo quite some time back. I don’t remember if it was a pay once offer or a subscription but either way I haven’t been paying to have the listing maintained.
The site is currently still listed in its respective category but I get hardly any referrals from the link.
I was wondering is there a difference between being paid up or not? Would I get more traffic if I were a paid up listing?
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utahclimber
msg:478228 | 3:28 pm on Aug 2, 2005 (gmt 0) |
In my experience & that of other webmasters I know, it seems that paying for a listing is similar to buying a movie ticket from Fandango.com; you get into the movie a little earlier but that it; everyone gets in eventually & it really doesn't do you any good to pay Yahoo's insane fees just to have them move you to the front of the movie line.
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tedster
msg:478229 | 11:57 pm on Aug 2, 2005 (gmt 0) |
| but I get hardly any referrals from the link |
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Direct referrals from the Y! Directory are not all that common. But the influence that a Y1 Directory link can have on search results, just because it's a strong link from a trusted authority page, can be very strong. So the value of the link cannot be measured just by the number of click-throughs from the directory page alone.
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