Comments on: Yahoo is Deleting the UK & Ireland Directory

By: Barbara Moore

Barbara Moore — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:55:31 +0000

I need to know how to delete UK and Ireland from my email. When I click on to sign in it comes up UK and Ireland.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:41:33 +0000

Its such a weird place to have a link but it works so well. I hope they offer an alternative place to keep our links

By: dee oneal

dee oneal — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:44:50 +0000

Really? this is the first time I read about it. I’ve no idea and I’m late for it to be honest. So far I’ve never check mine there and my links in yahoo are still intact as far as I know.

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:39:02 +0000

This strikes me as one of the most bizarre things to happen in the last few months. That and The Times going paid subscription. That didn’t work out too well either. One report said the guardian makes £20M a year from the ads on their website. I don’t see how the times having 105000 subscriber actions over 6 months comes close to that though.

Either the directory gets so much traffic that it’s useful and worth keeping, or it’s so full of spam it needs deleting, but what next? The main US one? Or is that spam free?

By: Starstruck

Starstruck — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:48:48 +0000

How could it be a cost cutting exercise? They don’t need to even look at free listings, only paid ones. It takes someone < 5 minutes to review a site and brings with it a yearly payment of $299. Is inept as Yahoo are, even they could run that at a profit.

By: Stephen Webb

Stephen Webb — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:00:46 +0000

This is quite an interesting development, especially considering how well known and trusted the Yahoo directory is. What’s interesting is that Yahoo haven’t actually stated why they are doing this, for which there could be multiple reasons.

Maybe this is part of a cost cutting effort, as I’m sure the directory requires a lot of maintenance to keep current. What will be interesting to see now is how this affects optimisation and listings, as I’m sure there will be a noticeable change with listings due to this.

By: One powerful backlink gone: Yahoo is deleting the UK directory — The Woof blog

One powerful backlink gone: Yahoo is deleting the UK directory — The Woof blog — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:29:18 +0000

[...] by Dave Foy on October 16, 2010 We are notifying you that the Yahoo! U.K. & Ireland Directory will be shutting down on November 18, 2010, and your site’s listing in that directory will be eliminated. via blogstorm.co.uk [...]

By: dave_ashworth

dave_ashworth — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:59:01 +0000

Will they be 301ing the old UK pages/categories to their international equivalent?

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:17:19 +0000

I meant Cached…

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:16:39 +0000

I have a couple of links on the UK directory, and one in the US. The pages that the links appears on in the UK has page rank, but the US directory isn’t even chached by Google.

Is it even worth me having this link? Certainly not worth $300 a year?