The age of the site doesn’t matter to Yahoo team reviewing your site. What matters is the amount and quality of content.

I suggest you have at least 30 pages (50+) is better before submitting and avoid stuffing the pages with tons of Adsense like you have right now.

When you submit the site you also agree that they can reject your site without any explanation to you why and without refunding you. So you better make it really good…

I need some advice from you. I have a just made new website (only 5 days old) for how to related and ready to submit into Yahoo dir, My question is – Do i submit a just new website into Yahoo dir with $299 ,Are they accepted my website for listing?

Please let me know ASAP, i hope many of them want this answer.

Thank

You provide a wealth of information. It is nice to see someone else who has done a lot of the research willing to share there knowledge.

PR Web is the most expensive and seems to be the most used by the media.

The free press releases did nothing noticeable for me when using them last year.

When using PR Web (when it was only $30)I got a bit of traffic, maybe 10 to 20 hits a day. That was not what was good about it.

I also picked up some .gov links, and several .com links. I did not know PR then so did not look for that. But this too is not what is interesting.

What really helped was the phone call from NewsWeek wanting to do a story on me. And an Atlanta News Paper who wanted to quote me, and another paper who wanted to include some of my material in their paper, all with a link to my site.

Of course, those were short lived but my site bumped up to a PR4 overnight. The only way I knew this is because a friend called me to congratulate me.

I am managing a Product Launch and I will steer my client into PR Web. So, if it is possible to repeat the same experience, I will let you know.

As far as the links go, many were sending traffic for at least 2 years.

As I said above – if your site will be placed on a high PR page, then yes, you will surely get much more traffic to your site, especially if it gets only 250 daily visitors.

My site only makes about $100 dollars per month. Would paying for a link from the Yahoo directory be worth my while?

The photography section in the Yahoo directory where my site would be is a pr5.

Do you think that I would get $300 worth of benefit back from Yahoo during the year?

Actually, when you submit to Yahoo directory, the Yahoo search engine will start taking you more seriously and it will send you more traffic. Also, the rankings in the directory change with time – depending on how much traffic you get.

If you want to rank high for a certain keyword, you need that keyword in the title and in the incoming links to that page. Those links can be external AND internal!

That’s all you need. It just takes time to build lots of pages and get lots of links but this is it. The whole secret of doing well online.

I started a new site a little more than 2 months ago.

The snowball has started rolling much faster with this site (averaging 70 uniques a day for the last week) and it has a PR of 3 already.

I’m not getting any traffic from Yahoo yet though.

Since you said pages are listed in Yahoo’s directory by popularity (traffic from Yahoo), should I wait to submit to Yahoo’s directory until I start getting traffic from them?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Perry

After reading your advice about Yahoo Directory I finally made the big leap and submitted. I followed your advice and submitted to a category with a PR 5 i.e. travel>ecotourism. I’m hoping they recognize that Tasmania is one of Australia’s most popular ecotourism destinations and include me under this category.

I know you’ve already done quite a few articles on link-building but I would love to hear more from you about other link-building ideas as I am trying to rank as highly as possible for the competitive keyword “Tasmania”.

Your advice would be greatly appreciated as always.

Cheers

Conor