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...experiences paying yahoo to get included in their directory. I only have one complaint... I pay $299 a year and the editor mispells a word...
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Paid inclusion is not the same as the Y! directory. For those who aren't totally aware of this, here goes:
Y! Directory is a $299 annual fee (for most categories now) to have a human being look at your site and determine if it warrants a link or not.
Yahoo Paid Inclusion is a service that makes their bot go wild on your website (re-crawls aggressively every 48 hours), then they place those results in their standard SERPs and give it a CPC treatment.
As for the value, if you're trying to check what changes do to your ranking, this helps a lot. Just give it a low daily spend and see where you rank every other day based upon the changes you make. If you're happy where you're at and it doesn't fluctuate much, don't bother.
Brian.