Does being listed in Yahoo directory increase PR in Google?

May 30th, 2008, 9:44 am

Yahoo directory improve your SERP ranking and somehow your page rank too.

May 30th, 2008, 11:40 am

That effect on your SERPS result and somehow in your page rank

June 10th, 2008, 7:01 pm

lajocar wrote:

I would like to know if getting listed in Yahoo Directory will increase pagerank or just generate more traffic?

If you read Google's own Webmaster Guidelines, they actually mention the Yahoo directory as a good inlink. It does not help your ranking in Yahoo though, like someone in this thread suggested. i simply spend the 300 bucks for the first year to gain credibility. Then I don't renew. It never affected my ranking afterwards.

July 15th, 2008, 11:04 pm

Submitting your website in yahoo directory helps in ranking in yahoo search engine but I don't think it helps for website's PR, there are many more factors for improving your PR.

July 24th, 2008, 6:37 am

No doubt that yahoo directory increase page rank, to some extend. The thing is that you have to collect everything useful for improving your page rank.

July 25th, 2008, 3:01 am

If you are getting listed in Yahoo directory, it does not guarantee that will increase your page rank but additional inbound links for your site. It is not guarantee also that it will generate traffic for your site.You should not focus on the Yahoo directory but on other link building process.

July 31st, 2008, 7:32 pm

Google crawls Yahoo directory pages so in short it is a big help boosting some rankings

August 28th, 2008, 7:38 am

aira wrote:

imo, there's a possibility for an improvement in ranking and traffic when your site got listed in Yahoo's main directory.. that would be the benefits that a site can get

probably yes or no... The main benefit of having a yahoo directory listing is the fact that it seems to help many sites in their ranking on the yahoo search engine. Not all, but many.

August 28th, 2008, 11:58 pm

Gain reputation on your site by social networking. Gaining reputation is hard but if you have a great reputation, the chances of having a high PR is big.

August 29th, 2008, 12:12 am

Submission of website in Yahoo directory is also helpful but for getting effective results in Google and increasing of PR depend on the relevant backlinks and informative updated contents.

September 1st, 2008, 5:10 pm

Google uses a lot of criteria when creating calculating PR..
I'm sure google look preferably on sites with listings in quality directories like yahoo and dmoz. I don't think them alone will neccessarily increase your PR although using that as part of you bigger plan along with other measures, should help.

September 2nd, 2008, 12:47 am

I agree. I don't think also submitting on Yahoo directory increases Google page rank. On some point, yahoo can promote your site to increase backlinks and traffic on your site.

November 25th, 2008, 4:14 am

Yahoo directory submission will help to improve your yahoo SERP and google page rank. But you can't expect, more traffic from yahoo directory. I have few sites that listed in yahoo. They all are high rank on yahoo search result.