Yahoo Directory Listing

[Gilad.G]

Hello,

I am considering getting one of my sited listed on the Yahoo directory.

Looking at the appropriate category, I noticed that listings do not appear by any particular order but more of a random order.

Is there any knowledge as to how Yahoo lists sites in it's directory?

Thanks in advance,

[rustybrick]

They order it by WebRank, more info on that at http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/000238.html

I also wrote a blog entry named Yahoo! Directory Ranks Pages by Popularity[/ur] which talks specifically about this.

Also, this is helpful [url]http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/dir/basics/basics-21.html (http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001638.html)

By default, Directory site listings are presented sorted by popularity and relevance. Sites that are most popular with users or the most relevant to the category appear at the top of the site listings. The order of web sites or web documents is based upon Yahoo! Search Technology. If the category is large, the listings will display over multiple pages with pagination displayed at bottom of the page.

[brandall]

Barry, are you sure they are still using WebRank? I thought that went the way of the Dodo Bird. They no longer make mention of it in their help page about how they order the Directory listings http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/dir/basics/basics-21.html

[rustybrick]

Maybe they renamed it? But it is some sort of "popularity" measure.

[Gilad.G]

Thanks, it makes sense now, looking across several related terms I could see some pattern.