Some freshbot questions

[Jacob_Jans]

About a month ago I discovered this site. Right after the last dance, actually. So, I've been reading and learning and building. I built a site, optimized it as well as I know how to - got several pr5 links pointing to it. Not surprisingly, it got freshbotted. So, here are my questions:

1. How is pr determined for freshbot listings? Is it reflected by just one link to the page, or all the links that where found by the freshbot?

2. Do do the links found by freshbot count in the dance? Or are they kept completely seperate?

3. Do the SERP rankings for the freshbot listings reflect what they'd be after the update if the page was deepcrawled?

[troels nybo nielsen]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Jacob

1. Not sure. There is some guesswork here. A guessed PR based on freshbot cannot count those links that are only found by deepcrawl. My own experiences seem to show that all known links to a new page are taken into account. And if the page is on a domain known by Google it may have a guessed PR based on its place in the hierarchy. The classic example is a new website on Geocities achieving a very high guessed PR.

2. They _may_ count, but don't expect it.

3. In most cases you may expect your listings by deepcrawl to be fairly the same as what freshbot showed.