Yahoo Directory and DMOZ Directory

[spike]

Does anybody have their site listed in the Yahoo Directory or DMOZ Directory?
If so how many visits do you average per month from these Directories? I know it depends on how many times your term is searched for.

I'm not talking about the useless General Directories. The ones that are here today and gone tomorrow. That provide little to no traffic and that are discounted by Google.

[jimbo]

I have a few sites and the Yahoo directory and one in the DMOZ directory but I only get maybe one visitor per month from these listings.

[dianar]

DMOZ was ok when the web was young, but now it is entirely too cluttered to bring in much traffic.

I haven't even bothered with Yahoo directory.

[spike]

I've never had any luck with getting good traffic from a directory. They're more for the link than traffic in my opinion. People still believe in them though.

[ykaw97]

Even though these directories aren't bringing much direct traffic don't they give high quality back links that gives you more authority in the search engines that causes traffic that way?

[tonyknuckles]

Originally Posted by ykaw97

Even though these directories aren't bringing much direct traffic don't they give high quality back links that gives you more authority in the search engines that causes traffic that way?

Exactly why you should continue to build backlinks via directory submission and commenting on dofollow blogs.

[jimbo]

Actually they would only be important for your Page Rank and you do not need to have high PR to rank well in the SERPS.

[loyalknight10]

I have some sites listed in Yahoo and DMOZ. Actually there is a quantum jump in traffic however there was a marginal improvement in traffic for a few months, however it came to the original position it once was.

[billmcintosh]

I believe that getting listings in these directories are a trust signal to Google & will help you a lot with SEO. At the very least they are on topic authority backlinks.

They can bring traffic directly, but not a ton.

In a nutshell: If you can get listings in these 2 directories; Go for it!