Yahoo's influence in Google

Do yahoo listing have more advantage than a traditional PR Gain?

[gopi]

A Friend of mine has this theory...he says that getting a yahoo listing helps to improve Google rankings other than the normal PR boost.He believes google gives special boost for yahoo listed sites.

I didnt believed it at first and thought a yahoo listing will just be the same as getting a link from anothor joe's page of the same pagerank...

But when i researched the google SERP rankings in a particular industry ( very competitive) i can see sites in top 5 are always yahoo listed. I am not sure this is just a coincidance...

I was looking into Google's Webmaster help page today and i stumbled into this piece of text..

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What else can I do to get listed in Google?

Google partners on the Web include Yahoo! and Netscape. As part of our agreements with these sites we include the sites in their directories (Yahoo! and DMOZ) in the Google index. If you are having difficulty getting listed in the Google index, you may want to consider submitting your site to either or both of these directories. You can submit to Yahoo! by visiting [docs.yahoo.com...] You can submit your site to Netscape's Open Directory Project (DMOZ) by visiting www.dmoz.org. Once your site is included in either of these directories you can expect to see it appear in the Google index in four to eight weeks.

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I am not sure what it mean..is google having any agrement with yahoo in spidering its sites. We can understand for dmoz since google uses it for its directory.. but Yahoo?

[allanp73]

Yahoo and Dmoz PRs were both artificially raised to a 10 by Google. Therefore a link from either is worth a lot. I figure they are each equal to about 100 links from smaller sites. You'll notice that the top sites consistantly have a DMOZ link. Less obvious is that many also have a Yahoo link. It is easy to verify by doing domain search on Yahoo.

[gopi]

"Yahoo and Dmoz PRs were both artificially raised to a 10 by Google"

Where do you read that multiple of 10?. I think the PR boost from yahoo remain the same as from other same PR websites .

But i now believe that a yahoo or dmoz listing is one of the important ranking factor among the other infamous 100 variables google use along with PR ...

Any idea?

[Sasquatch]

DMOZ and yahoo have no need to have artificially raised PR. They both have over 600 K inbound links. That is over 5 times as many as adobe, which is also a PR10.

DMOZ and Yahoo! are also both "seeds" which Google uses to start it's spidering.

I would not be surprized if there was a bonus (non-PR) for being in one of these *trusted* human edited directories.

The way I see it, it's one of the few things that google tells you to do to improve your position, so you do it.

[yankee]

I don't think yahoo will boost your PR any more than a similar PR page, but I do think it will increase your placement in the SERPs. PR is just one of many factors that are used to determine the SERPS. I think a Yahoo (yes/no) flag probably exists as another factor.

[gopi]

yankee , that is what i also guessing ...

[DanG82]

My site moved about three months ago, and Yahoo! just updated to the correct URL earlier today. How long will it take for Google to take note of that?

[vitaplease]

Any people around who have a Yahoo listing and do not get frequent spidering?(the date stamp next to the serp of that page in Google).

[veneerz]

I am in Yahoo! and DMOZ, Google failed to update my stie in August and still has not crawled during this going update.