Google's Page Rank and DMOZ

[liana]

Hello All,

Here is a situation... A friend of mine was accepted to DMOZ in February , 2002 . 3 months later her site was removed from DMOZ. She never spammed DMOZ. It's just one of the editors decided to kick her out.

Her site is currently enjoys a pagerank of 6 and is accepted in YAHOO and Looksmart.

Now that she is out of DMOZ would you say that her Page Rank will suffer because of it?

Her site was removed from DMOZ about 3 months ago and the page rank PRESENTLY remains at 6.

Does it mean that it will stay at 6 despite of the site's absence in DMOZ?

[EliteWeb]

It is possible that the site was moved to a different category more appropiate for the site and is waiting in the unreviewed section for an editor to get to it. Or it was moved to a different category and your looking in the wrong hole.

[IanTurner]

My experience is that sites are very rarely removed from DMOZ if they have been accepted, unless they are using a bait and switch technique or become unavailable for a long period of time.

[startup]

Without knowing the PR value of the dmoz page linking to the site, there is no way of answering the question.

Ian,
I have had a site removed twice from the same cat. The removal was just after the editor changed. Trying to get it listed for a third time has proven to be impossible.

[liana]

The site was removed - (I know this for a fact) - in MAY. Now we have the end of September YET, the page rank remains the same...

How is it possible?

One possibility is that it takes more than 4 months to experience the impact of DMOZ delisting.

Another possibility is that :

if you get listed in YAHOO or looksmart - in this case the site listed in both yahoo and looksmart - DMOZ listing (or lack of it)DOES NOT MATTER.

Which of the 2 possibilities?

Your opinion?

[Mohamed_E]

There is no real agreement as to whether listing in DMOZ has any value additional to that of the PR transferred by the link. I suspect that it does not, so all that your friend has lost is one link. For a site with a PR of 6 I would not expect the loss of one link to have much effect.

Google almost certainly recalculates PR from scratch at each update, so I would be very surprised if a delisting in May were to have a delayed effect down the road.

[rcjordan]

I have several PR6 pages that have never been listed in DMOZ, Yahoo, or Looksmart. I'm with Mohamed_E on this one.

[DrCool]

If it has been that long and nothing has changed negatively because of it than you probably are safe. There could be some other links from other sites that are making up for the loss of DMOZ.