RobertSkelton - 9:32 pm on Jul 30, 2002 (gmt 0)

My site has a PR of 7 - I attribute this to being listed at DMOZ in 9 different categories:

I paid to be listed in Yahoo and my PR went up by one, and my visitors via Google doubled.

Without getting into complicated formulas, to me a good plan of attack would be to:

1) Get listed at DMOZ as many times as possible. Being an editor of a category definitely helps, but the workload can be great. Creating new content unrelated to the rest of your site is a trick rarely seen (ie an article, not linked to from other pages, except the site map).

2) If doubling your Google traffic will return you much more than $299 a year in profits, pay to get listed at Yahoo. (It won't be double if you already have a number of high-quality incoming links)

[edited by: NFFC at 9:36 pm (utc) on July 30, 2002]