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Has anyone actually paid to list here? Does anyone get any traffic from here?
Yes, tested about 90 days ago.
NO
No. Pre-PFP
No. Business.com usually generates less traffic per month than Yahoo generates per hour.
Heck they spent so much buying the name they will have to make it pay soon.
More so they said they were taking 40,000 visitors a week. That's rubbish I know their market and what they can get legitimately. Still doesn't stop them.
I can take more without paying for Inc. Traditional SEO still rules if you know how it works.
Glyn.
At the add a site it says "suggest a site" still as page title but it's $99 a submission.
Anyone have up to date referral information for business - industrial sites?
Skibum do you think a link from a PR4 Page at $99 is worth it for its potential Google effect?
Listed - Yes
Referrals - You have got to be kidding... why would anyone ever want a referral! :) :)
do you think a link from a PR4 Page at $99 is worth it for its potential Google effect?
I suppose it'd depend on how many links you have already and what your current PageRank is... but in most cases a PR4 link isn't worth very much and isn't going to give the linked site a significant PR boost. So if you're speaking only of its PageRank value, I'd be inclined to say no.
I've never really been looking for it, but I don't ever remember seeing links from Business.com in the backlinks to any site in Google. There is no robots.txt on the homepage anyway so I assume they would be counted........
In any case, if you have any PR4-5 page that you can link to the site do that. It'll getcha on the map, then go for YAHOO! and ODP. If there is not a site you can easily point to it, then business.com might be worht it.
Hi, no I don't have anything suitable. Will think about it, am presently researching more linking options for that market.
Thanks for your feedback.
$40 a page at AV is a complete waste of money, and I doubt they get many people doing it.
On the other hand, Business.com could possibly charge more. If the page you get listed on is of high enough PR, then it could be worth it.
bn
