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

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    • William.Lau
      William.Lau last edited by

      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

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      • MMP
        MMP @William.Lau last edited by

        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?

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        • Webrevolve
          Webrevolve last edited by

          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!

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          • MMP
            MMP @Webrevolve last edited by

            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!

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            • Webrevolve
              Webrevolve @MMP last edited by

              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.

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              • MMP
                MMP @MMP last edited by

                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...

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                • YvonneMartin
                  YvonneMartin last edited by

                  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 ?

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                  • William.Lau
                    William.Lau @MMP last edited by

                    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.

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                    • William.Lau
                      William.Lau @MMP last edited by

                      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.

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                        • photoseo1
                          photoseo1 @MMP last edited by

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

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                          • KeriMorgret
                            KeriMorgret last edited by

                            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.

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