rcjordan - 4:45 pm on Sep 21, 2000 (gmt 0)

I'm a big believer in 1st-quality domain names. And I have sites that parallel Rencke's summer study. One of my concerns is how to account for the popularity factor that the perceived "authority" of a keyword domain generates.

Let me see if I can sort this out. I believe that Yahoo in now counting Yahoogle clicks, if my domain draws the clicks based on its 'eye-appeal' this might eventually be used in a ranking algo. SOooo, what first appears to have low ranking weight might positively affect the rank -perhaps substantially, depending on the SE- at some later date. I KNOW this happened with my site in Snap Live Directory, the public liked the domain/url/title, they clicked, and subsequently ratcheted a sizeable chunk of the site into the main directory.