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Does anyone have a theory on how often Google crawls sites like Yahoo and DMOZ?
I'm assuming that they get crawled very often (esp. Y!) with all the new content that gets added.
The reason I'm asking is that I submitted to Google the end of June and Googlebot visited me. After that, about a week later DMOZ indexed me and just Tuesday Yahoo indexed me. I'm wondering if they will have any influence on my PR this update.
Any guesses?
Thanks,
Jen
Google appears to upload the ODP feed once a month. I'm not sure about the
Yahoo! Directory.
When you say that Yahoo! and DMOZ "indexed" you, do you mean that you submitted
your sites to their directories?
If so, yes, the DMOZ listing may help your page rank. The ODP listing - by
itself - will get you into many top search engines, because they use the ODP as
known-high-quality "seed stock" for crawling the web. However, to get high page
rank, you need many links to your site using relevant link text from sites with
at-least-somewhat-related themes and having high page rank themselves. This
concept of "themeing" is coming into vogue on the web through themed engines
like Teoma. So, it may become increasingly more important to make sure your
incoming links come from quality sites with themes that closely match yours.
HTH,
Jim
