Do you recommend Yahoo Local Search registration?

[Rubix]

I just wanted to check if you guys recommend Yahoo Local Search registration for SEO purposes. Is it worthwhile to pay £300? What's your view?

Thanks

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Sida,

If you wish to go beyond the free basic Yahoo Local listing, you can get an enhanced listing for about $10/month in the U.S. I am not being shown UK rates, but here is the page I'm looking at:

http://beta.listings.local.yahoo.com/comp.php

Honestly, unless you have money to burn (and few small businesses do), paying the amount you've specified may not be a good investment unless your company has proof that your customers are heavy users of Yahoo! Local. There are countries where something like YP is so dominant that paying for inclusion may be worth it, because they are literally one of the only strong indexes in 'town', but this is probably not the case in the UK.

[Rubix]

Thanks Chris,I've received a proposal from an agency offering Yahoo Local registration for different keywords and the cost of £300 is not for a year but for 6m.  If it doesn't give any value from SEO then there is no point to go into it

[Rubix]

Thanks Paddy, I hear the same thing and i can't decide whether i should go for it or not but i probably won't go ahead now

Thanks

[Chris.Menke]

Considering it's not actually £300, it's  £300 per year, or, at least it used to be, I don't believe there's value in it.  Since the Mid 2000's, I've felt that Yahoo has traded on it's name as far as that service goes, not on the actual value  that it provides its customers.  Don't expect much in the way of visitor traffic from the listing and don't expect much algorithmic value from it.

[PaddyDisplays]

I think its really depends on you website and budget.  Some people say its worth it others say its not.  Some get direct traffic from it, but I think most do not (from my own experience I got no direct traffic from it).

I'm not going to say you should not get it,  but for my own point of view  I have no plans currently to get it for my own site