What makes you pay for directory inclusion?

[shilmy]

Hi,

There many directory sites out there, paid one and free one.

My question is:

What criteria do you use so you are willing to pay to get your site listed on a directory?

Regards,
Sjarief

[cbp]

PR

CBP

[greeneagle]

Something seems to have dramatically changed in the last alg adjustments concerning the value of paid inclusion in the YAHOO Directory. I don't have enough data yet, but am experiencing something I haven't between Sites favored by Yahoo over GOOGLE that seems fairly pronounced.

Please help deny or substantiate what we are seeing.

See related topic:
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=50001

Ken

[wrmineo]

Not just PR but traffic also. A directory could have a very high PR due to IBL but have very little traffic still. Hence, I'm more inclined to consider the traffic over the PR. Are they going to send me potential traffic/customers, not just increase my PR with a listing. I have sites that rank very well in SERP without high PR values - so I'm concerned less with my PR, and more with simply getting visitors. Don't get me wrong, a higher PR would be nice, but more for site ego than traffic efficacy.

[cbp]

I go for higher PR links from directories because PR is important for a lot more thngs than the minimal affect it has on rankings ie: deeper and more frequent crawls (whoever said PR was not important?)

CBP

[shilmy]

Not just PR but traffic also. A directory could have a very high PR due to IBL but have very little traffic still. Hence, I'm more inclined to consider the traffic over the PR.

How do you know in advance that a particular directory will send you traffic?