Who believes in Yahoo & DMOZ in 2008?

[johnegood]

I read alot on the web. Most of it is a rehash of other stuff. Google encourages alot of writing so there's endless rehashing. Think of this as content.

Much of it says: Get a dmoz link blah blah blah blah and pay for a yahoo link blah blah blah blah.

Are these links any more valuable than any other link at this point? I would think not but have not done any scientific testing. I would suspect that as far as YAHOO is concerned, the Yahoo listing will send some traffic but will not otherwise influence the other engines in any special ways.

[fastreplies]

Google count listing in Yahoo or DMOZ as single link. No more and not less
So, if you pay Yahoo $299 or submit your site to DMOZ for free, the most you will get is 2 backlinks

I would rather, for the money it cost, submit instead to 15 - 20 paid directories than to Yahoo alone


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