Why does my aged Yahoo Directory listing not show up as link in OpenSiteExplorer?

[bizzer]

A site of my is in the yahoo directory (3dprinter.net). It's been there for a long time.  I just went into OpenSiteExplorer to see where the link ranked, and it's not there.   Why would not not show up? And if it doesn't show up, is it even worth my money to do for other sites?

[Chris.Menke]

Bizzer,

It can take a long time before OSE finds a listing on Yahoo directory--like 6 months or more.  As far as the value of that listing, my opinion is that your $300 is better spent developing content for your site and finding a few well curated niche directories to put your links.

[bizzer]

As I said, it is an aged link.  It went in at least 18 months ago.

[Chris.Menke]

It's possible that OSE never crawls that deeply into the directory pages of your niche--OSE doesn't get to every page on the web.  In the end, however, it's not what OSE shows, it's whether or not Google knows it's there and if Google assigns any value to it.  Essentially, a YDir link is a paid link and link juice shouldn't be expected from it.  However, you can drop the url (minus the "http://") do a site:dir.yahoo.com search for your company name and see if google's indexed that page.

edit: However, you can do a google search on the url (minus the "http://") or a site:dir.yahoo.com search for your company name and see if google's indexed that page.