Is it good to list in yahoo directory for google search?

[johnlim9988]

HI,

Is it good to list in yahoo directory for google search?

Is yahoo directory an anthority source in google's eye?

Also yahoo directory has so many deep sub-directory, if listed in a very deep sub-directoy and has no page rank, will it be useful for google search? Will google still think it is an nothority source?

Thanks.

[tedster]

My experience, even within the past two months, still says that Google values the Yahoo directory. During the recent paid links storm, Matt Cutts reaffirmed that human edited directories are a good and acceptable link, and not at all the same thing as a "paid link".

I don't think the PR of those deep pages is all that much of a problem. Being on an appropriately "themed" page for your site matters more. I've recently been happily surprised to see Yahoo give some of the sites I work with extra entries in other sections, in addition to the one I applied for.

[JackR]

I agree with tedster.

The thing to bear in mind when considering linkage is not so much "will this be of benefit", but rather "can this hurt my site in any way".

A Yahoo! Directory listing is a perfect example of a link that will likely help, but will most certainly not hinder the success of your site.

[followgreg]

all of the above being sais, the yahoo directory is over crowded and not so search engine friendly at times - so not sure how google can find some links there when you are on page 25 of your category.
A lot of pages of the Y directory also went supplemental which makes me wonder if it gets a special treatment that is not reported to the actual serp.

It's always a trauma for me to spend $300 for no clicks at all, when I say zero...it's zero, instead of spending in PPC for example.

[johnlim9988]

Like http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Australia/
States_and_Territories/Victoria/Cities_and_Regions/
Melbourne/Business_and_Shopping/Business_to_Business/
Education/ [dir.yahoo.com]

This page has No PR, (grey) and no cache, is it useful to lised in such yahoo directory page?

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[johnlim9988]

Is it useful to list in yahoo directory page which has No PR(grey) and no cache?

Now if you want to list in yahoo directory, almost are all such kind of page. As you are not possible to list in the upper directory which has PR and cache.

How to do? Still try to list in yahoo directory?

Thanks.

[johnlim9988]

Somebody say that it is still useful for google ranking to list in yahoo directory page which has No PR(grey) and no cache.

But I cannot understand this point.

The page has no PR and even no cache, how can it help for google ranking?

[johnlim9988]

Is it really useful to list in yahoo directory page not indexed and no cache?

Thanks.

[tedster]

You've got at least two threads going about your debate on this issue. There's a difference of opinion being offered to you in response, but those opinions fall mostly on the positive side. Many Google spokespeople have also discussed the Yahoo Directory in very positive terms, especially in backlink discussions.

But there's no guarantee going to come through for you about this; you need to either pay $300 and find out if it's good for you in real terms, or forget about the idea -- in either case, you can then be done with it. You may have already spent $300 worth of your time trying to decide whether to submit or not.

[followgreg]

Just for the sake of saying it: I don't think that Yahoo directory makes a such good trusted source. Their standards are pretty low at times.

So if every GG gives any extra lollypops to whoever pays $300 for no traffic and no visibility most of the time then I'd say Google should or does actively look for replacing this source.

[vetofunk]

I would say it's still important to Google. Google still says in their guidelines to "Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites."

[Rienne]

I have a 3 month old site. I signed up for the Yahoo directory and noticed an uplift overall once it bit, but it could have been the overall effort in other areas as well. However I tested the Search Submit basic with one URL. This is now getting the most direct hits in. Early days yet, so I have now put in another one URL to see what happens. But so far I would say yes, it counts.

[webwannabee]

Get rid of the pagerank mindset. Yahoo directory listing is important. Think about it - a professional human editor approves of your site, validates the taxonomy, indexes it based on the quality of the content, absence of hype-speech, naturalness of speech, lack of under-construction pages, etc.

If you were a nerd PhD writing a search algorithm how would you treat Yahoo index inclusion?

[SEOPTI]

I think someone from Google also mentioned botw directory as a good link few years ago.

[rainborick]

But the previous poster is right to be concerned if the Yahoo! directory page where his listing would reside is not cached, since that's an indication that the page is not in Google's index. A link from a page that isn't in the index obviously can't help your Google rankings no matter how well the parent domain is trusted/ranked/etc. I don't know if there's a simple acid test to see if an individual page is in the index anymore. Maybe using the allinurl: operator on the page's URL would be best.

[johnlim9988]

Yes,
What I concerned is A link from a page that isn't in the index can help the Google rankings or not.

THe following is your reply,

"A link from a page that isn't in the index obviously can't help your Google rankings no matter how well the parent domain is trusted/ranked/etc."

But I don't know if the reply is right or not.