Yahoo weighting on PR

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Yahoo weighting on PR

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caine

12:32 pm on Oct 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

I've just witnessed a direct translation of PR from a yahoo cat straight too a website. For some reason i was thinking that the strongest directory based listing you could have for G was ODP. I was completely surprised too see the PR go from 2 to 5 in one jump. Great stuff!

Marcia

1:04 pm on Oct 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

caine, what's the PR of the Yahoo category the listing is in?

caine

2:35 pm on Oct 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

2_much

10:00 pm on Oct 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

There's also a PR boost from being listed in all the other Yahoos; it's not just one link.

steveb

2:13 am on Oct 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

If you want to drive yourself crazy with a little mystery, check out the various Yahoo categories in the main yahoo and in the regional when you use lower case instead of uppercase letters for the first word(s) in the category. They all have different pageranks (often the lowercase are just grey bar but not always). When a lower category is linked to via a lowercase letter, it will generally lead to a significant drop in the PR of that category, and especially the ones below it. Hard to describe but cruise around awhile, especially in the UK or Australian Yahoos and you'll find some unfortunate anomalies.

If you are lucky enough to have a Yahoo listings where all the regional Yahoos all use capital letters all the time, you will have a really great link in terms of PR for that industry.

Marcia

3:28 am on Nov 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

I did a submission last Saturday that was included by Wednesday and there was a slight PR boost for the site showing up by Friday. Not evident with the toolbar from the homepage, but the interior pages went from PR3 to PR4.

rfgdxm1

5:53 pm on Nov 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

>For some reason i was thinking that the strongest directory based listing you could have for G was ODP.

GoogleGuy once posted that for ODP links, they are treated the same as any other page. Thus, link on a teenager's home page with PR has the same weight as an ODP listing, assuming an equal number of links on both pages. I see know reason for Yahoo to be different.

(And, yes I am aware of the issue of regional Yahoo's, and that an ODP link also will eventually be counted when it makes it to the Google directory.)