Yahoo! Directory

Getting that free listing

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I know most people pay for a listing in Yahoo's directory, but I'm wondering if anyone has any info/experience with getting a free listing.

Is this more likely to happen in a less popular category? Say a category has about 20 to 30 entries in it at the moment. Is that an area likely to give away a free listing?

Also, The directories have a "Most Popular" section at the top, followed by an alphabetical listing. Are the "most popular" links actually the most popular, or are the one's that shelled out the cash for a listing?

Thanks in advance for any responses.

cEM

[awall19]

I think it mostly has to do with the quality of the site. but you should submit to a relevant specific category, especially if you are trying to get a free listing.

[martinibuster]

Submit, submit, submit, and submit again. My understanding is that they flush the queue every five or so weeks. So start a spreadsheet of all the domains you're submitting, which cat, urls, titles, descriptions, and date submitted.

Then pick a time of month you're submitting and keep repeating it on a roughly five or so week interval until you get in. If it's a good site you'll eventually get in.

[madmatt69]

I finally after about a year of submitting off and on got a listing.

I've seen zero traffic from it. Sure glad I didn't pay that $299!

[siteseo]

madmatt - you probably WON'T see "traffic" from a Yahoo Directory listing. After all - who uses it? The benefit of a Y! listing is the powerful pagerank/link popularity (and credibility) it passes to your site. Hundreds of search engines (albient small ones) crawl directories like Y! for their content, which can translate to small amounts of traffic from those third-tier engines.

[Small Website Guy]

This month I got myself a FREE listing in the big Y, for a non-commerical site that I submitted THIRTEEN MONTHS ago.

I should add that I never resubmitted the site or anything, I just submitted it once and then when it never got listed I assumed that Yahoo just doesn't list sites for free. I was completely shocked surprised and awed to see it listed.

The same site got listed in DMOZ in only two weeks. The rule of DMOZ is if a site has absolutely no commercial value at all, it gets listed really quickly. There is absolutely no way my site could ever make any money except as a PageRank booster for my other sites. (And the new Google algorithm seems purposely designed to defeat this type of PageRank boosting... the boosted site gets PageRank, but zero traffic.)