Crazy Old Google

[Linkster]

Halfdeck - thats actually the overall point - since they are no longer dividing it between all of their mirrors (.com etc) and not splitting between the non-www and www (which they were) - this will have the effect of raising the PR calc quite substantially - of course its going to be a slow process with a recalc of half a million URLs they have - but should be beneficial in the long run

[Halfdeck]

this will have the effect of raising the PR calc quite substantially

Right. My point is you can get PageRank from virtually anywhere. DMOZ's influence over search results has more to do with it being a great candidate as a seed site when running various algorithms. For example, Hub/authority based algo where DMOZ is used as a seed for generating a set of good authorities and hubs. Or a TrustRank-type algo where DMOZ is used as a seed to generate a list of sites that link out to high quality sites (I'm not claiming those algos are actually in place). Add to that the fact that a listing in DMOZ or Yahoo! Directory are positive quality signals that tell Google my site isn't a 2-week-wonder spam. Fluctuations in PageRank will have an effect, but my bet is the effect would be minor. One way to check is to look at the number of urls you have in Google's main index by running a "site:domain.com/*" command. If number of results hasn't changed dramatically, I'd assume your site's link pop hasn't changed all that much either.

[plateman]

I wasnt gonna post cause in the past I've jinked my se listings and they went away|shocking|

but what the hell, I picked up some nice terms between pages 1 and 3 of the serps...


as far as theories go I agree with linkster

I also think that these serps are gonna stick for awhile, have a gut feeling

[Preacher]

For quite a while now when I've searched for the name of one of my sites it's been pinned near the 950-1000 rank. Today it appears on page 1.

[tickler]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

Right. My point is you can get PageRank from virtually anywhere. ...... Add to that the fact that a listing in DMOZ or Yahoo! Directory are positive quality signals that tell Google my site isn't a 2-week-wonder spam.

I just noticed that some of my long running links are starting to show up in the top 5 SERPs. So since Yahoo has some of my links showing up, maybe Google will be nice and pickup my Yahoo links.