caseya - 8:51 pm on Sep 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have found they can be worth it for the inital links as a way for the SEs to find your site. I have listed a site in the top 5 directories before and had my site show up on the first page for mildly contested keywords before.

I think they're a pretty good place to start. But if you already have tons of links to your site, then there probably is very little if any value to paying for a directory link.