Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Today...I went and checked out dmoz.org. What did I find? My site was listed!
What will this do for my google pagerank when it updates? My pagerank is currently 3. Also, how long ago was the last update?
Thanks :)
It is most important to remember that pr is only a tiny part of what makes your site rank. It is really an indication of the quality and number of sites that link to you.
Ska
What will this do for my google pagerank when it updates? My pagerank is currently 3.
It depends on the pagerank of the dmoz category where your site is listed. If the category is PR5, it might help bring your PR up to a 4. If the cat has a PR4, your site will probably stay at PR3 - according to the toolbar. However, since the toolbar only shows PR in increments of 1, the PR might actually be a "high" PR3.
Also, once your site is in the google directory, that will affect your PR also.
And, as you have probably read elsewhere in these forums, google doesn't update the PR at the same time as they update the visible PR on the toolbar. Most people think the "real" PR updates before the change shows on the toolbar.
Write some articles about your topic (or hire someone to write them). Submit the articles to "free content" sites - ie, sites that have articles that other webmasters can use on their site or in ezines. (Search google for "article submission" or "submit your article" to find these sites.) Be sure to put your tag line - with a link to your site - at the bottom of the articles.
This will bring traffic from the ezines and sites that use your articles and should help your PR also.
Try to get links from high PR sites. Do some link exchange with relevant sites. It will help you too attain a high PR.
Also, I notice a ton of sites in msn that have my site linked now, which appear to be getting their info directly from DMOZ's directory. Will these sites help my PR as well?
My overall goal is to get my site fully spidered by googlebot (it has over 40,000 pages of unique content).
When I started as webmaster, people made sites to spread our ideas, appear, anything else, but not for gain money, opposite, only expenses with hosting and hard work, maybe one or two mails of your visitors happily by day, "Search engines? What a hell?". Today... before your site goes online the only thing that matter is the money.
The problem of your site dont is the DMOZ, Google, Yahoo... maybe you just need make your visitors happy.
(sorry for my english)
If I could get visitors, my site would provide much more than other similar sites which have popups every 5 seconds.
The entire reason I made my site had nothing to do with money
Ok, sorry, but my tip keep same. Forget search engines by now, just make your visitors more happy, build a useful content, I wish the better for you.
(Another tip, search engines dont will like a PR3 site with 40k pages and can apply a filter IMHO).
This is obviously wrong on the face of it. Sites don't have PR, pages have PR.
If the home page of a site is PR3, the effect of that PR is "distributed" among all the pages that page links to (presumably other pages on the site.) If your site navigation is fairly symmetric, that leaves very little effect to percolate down to the leaf pages -- say approximately PR -1 or -2 (yes, those are negative numbers!) That may not be enough to get those pages included in the Google index.
Thanks in advance
Scangilli
I don't know any specific sites for your topic, but will send you sticky with URLs that have various categories where you can submit articles - since URLs in posts are against TOC.
