Top 4 Paid Directories
1. Yahoo.com (PR 8): Yahoo should be on the top of your priority for when it comes to getting paid link. For most of the internal pages, especially for the ones that you submit to, there won’t be any PR at all but there is nothing to worry. You are not getting listed on yahoo for PR but for the rank stability which it will give you both in Google and Yahoo organic search. Don’t expect hits coming directly from the directory.
Price: $299 / year (fee is non-refundable)
2. Business.com (PR 7): I have listed a few of my websites with business.com, the submission process is pretty straight forward and it takes them 3-4 days to approve a link. Make sure you email them with your site name and description before hand to know exactly in what category will your website be listed. This will give you an idea of what the PR is on their page. Do not submit blogs as they would reject it. They only accept websites which have a business theme. Submitting your personal blog would be a waste of both time and money. Don’t expect traffic directly form business.com.
Price: $299 / year (fee is non-refundable)
3. Botw.org (PR 6): Best of the Web directory. This directory has been there 15 years now and has stood the test of time. If you do plan to submit to this directory, Google or “botw coupons” and you may just find a 25% discount on the listing.
Price: $99.95 / year or $249.95 Permanent Listing (fee is non-refundable)
4. STPT.com (PR 5): This is another directory which has been there for a long time. It’s home page now looks more like a search engine than a directory, which is good as Google frowns upon directory looking websites.
Price: $99 / year (fee is non-refundable)
Personally I would not go beyond submitting to the above 4 directories. Google keeps changing its algorithms and constantly keeps discounting links coming from directories so its not worth paying to 50 directories only to be dropped the very next month.
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