Yahoo Express

What's the score nowadays?

[Istvan]

Hi People,

I was curious, after the integration of google into the yahoo engine, how the yahoo express submission pays out these days.

Is it worth the $299?

Can we see some figures in form of hits, visitors which you get through this listing? Anyone?

Istvan

[bekyed]

Hi,

Yahoo still carries a lot of weight and brings in a fair amount of traffic.
This really depends on the size of the category in the directory you are submitting to.
A new site of ours was submitted to a category with only 12 listings in their and already this has produced over 100 hits for us since yesterday and cost £450 (fetish wear site)
Your best bet is to submit your site to a regional yahoo and pay only once, because you will automatically be included in the main index and this is a lot cheaper.

Bek.

[bekyed]

The cost for a uk listing is only
£199 one-time non refundable fee.
I think other countries are the same.

Bek

[2_much]

Hi Istvan,

This really depends on the category.

I have a site about Buddhism that produces about 100 hits a day from Yahoo. From these 100 hits, about 70 are from the directory listing (they find the site through the category page).

At the same time, I have other sites that have gotten 0 hits from Yahoo.

Others get about 10 hits a day.

So it really depends on many things: your URL, what category you are submitting to, whether it is returned in the SERP's as the category listing, how many other sites in that category, etc.

Hope this helps.

[DarkFriend]

Been considering this. Would be good to know if its really worth it.