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Which directories are worth paying for?

When I wrote my SEO techniques that work, I mentioned paid directories. In the comments, an important question came up about your ROI on a directory link. Here are two I like:

UTN Web Directory is having a two for one sale until Jan 1. Now is certainly the time to sign up. It is being promoted all over the web, so it should debut with pretty high PR when Google gets around to it. For $69.00 you get a link to your site and 3 deep links to pages in your site. Submit to a regional category and you'll be put in different regions and categories so you can end up with lots of links. Same thing with the 29.00 listing, but you don't get the three deep links.

www.thisisouryear.com is a great value. Under $20.00 and somehoe every link page is PR 5 with ten external links. Other directories would do well to imitate their linking structure.

These two directories are certainly worth paying for in my opinion, especially now with UTNs 2 for 1 deal. I have paid for other directory listings, if I see a high PR category that one of my sites fits into well. I ahve this thing about paying the same money for a link deeper in the directory (which therefore has less PR) as sites who get into the high PR directory pages.