I find Yahoo’s directory annoying in that it is so expensive to get listings updated, thus like Dan, so of my Yahoo listings have descriptions/titles that are years out of date. The fee isn’t bad when one is focusing their efforts at getting people to one’s main page and the site has a very focused topic. When a site is a heavy content site like mine where each page has a different but very focused topic matter, a single directory listing is all but useless as people would be more interested in seeing subpages than going to the main “home page.” I keep hoping that paid inclusion directories totally disappear and that automated indexing becomes good enough to render human edited directories obsolete. Dmoz is a good example of how human edited directories have failed to deliver on their promise.

DMOZ is still valuable in terms of PR, but it’s packed full of power-trippers.

Most of the categories that I have looked at in DMOZ have either sites that no longer exist, have no editors to add my submissions or have links to rubbish (spam) sites that were most likely only added because the editor of the category owns them and has the ability to add whatever they want.