We registered with Yahoo Directory. Why won't this show up as a a linking root domain in our link analysis??

[MMP]

Recently checked our link analysis report for 2 of our campaigns who are registered in the dir.yahoo.com (yahoo directory). For some reason, we don't see this being a domain that shows up as linking to our website - why is this?

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Neil,

I'm not at the office to verify with the team right now, but it's a fairly safe bet to guess that we don't crawl all of the pages of Yahoo's directory, so if this is down several directory layers deep and not popular, we may not crawl it.

[photoseo1]

Have you seen any upward movement in rankings since you got listed in the directory?

[William.Lau]

Also go to Alexa.com and search your site and check linking in sites. That may be another place where you can look to see that you are receiving the link.

[William.Lau]

It takes some time as others have mentioned. I know OSE does delay in counting certain links. I wouldn't stress it, you can just check on Google or GWT if that link is being accounted for, but again they don't update too frequently either.

If the link is there, it should be indexed soon, just a matter of time.

[YvonneMartin]

Thanks for the heads up on BOTW.  Would be great to see which of the 2 directories was responsible for the increase in PA/DA or If both were responsible in equal measurements.

Does anyone know ?

[MMP]

Yes, and we typed in the company name into the dir.yahoo.com search and both appear.

Thanks for your help on BOTW also - we just signed up 2 sites for that and we'll see what it does for us...

[Webrevolve]

Might be a silly answer from me here, but have you logged into your Yahoo account to see if the listing is live?

I took some PA/DA metrics and rank date for my target keywords before signing up to the directories. I re-checked a couple months later and noticed decent increases in PA/DA and steady rank improvements, so i'll say signing up to both was a good move - but hard to say which directory contributed to the improvementes, whether it was one of or both.

But yes, I liked BOTW, much easier than Yahoo to get the listing approved and live, and cheaper to boot.

[MMP]

I've never registered for BOTW - do you like it? I notice that they let you link to your google+, facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn!

In response to the directory though, I might contact Yahoo!

[Webrevolve]

I registered one of my sites back in May on Yahoo Dir and BOTW, started showing in OSE at the start of August, so can take a bit of time - but 7 months would seem way to long!

[MMP]

Well, one of our sites has been on Yahoo Directory for over 1 month, and the other has been on for 7 months. So, why then has it still not shown up?

[William.Lau]

Linkscape is not updated daily or weekly. It is usually monthly. So if this happened within the month it will show up in the next update.

Please refer to the calendar here:

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape%20Schedule