Paid for Yahoo Directory months ago, yet does not display in OSE

[Travis-W]

Hi Mozzers,

How long does it normally take for your yahoo directory link to show up in Open Site Explorer?

We signed up and got our link on dir.yahoo early January and still see nothing in OSE.  Should I call them up and ask them to fetch the page for Google?
Get a refund?

Helps!
Thanks!

[NakulGoyal]

If you go to the URL where your directory listing is on dir.yahoo.com, and check the Google cache for that page, is that page cached ? When was it cached ? And do you see your URL on the cached version of that page ? If yes, you are getting the credit for it. You may or may not see it on OSE, because OSE only crawls a portion of the web.

Does that link show up in your Google Webmaster Console Links ? If yes, in either the cache or GWC or both, you are good and no need to worry.

[Chris.Menke]

As an aside, by the time you get to renewal time for next year's listing in Yahoo, you may want to have already looked at other ways to spend that 300 bucks.

[eyepaq]

Hi,

As far as I know - based on feedback from several people, the Yahoo directory has a low crawl rate from Google bot - that means it can take some time for a link from Yahoo dir to show up.

More then that - OSE only covers a portion of the web and it might skip Yahoo Dir. if it's not in OSE it dosen't mean Google didn't find it though - there are a lot of older Yahoo dir links that are not showing in OSE.

If you post the Yahoo dir page where you have the link for sure me or someone else from here can have a more direct " dive " into this...

Hope it helps.

[Travis-W]

I just took a look and it looks like the page was last crawled less than 2 weeks ago.

I also looked in GWT and I actually see 7 dir.yahoo links!

Woot.

Thanks Nakul.