Anchor text and DMOZ

[needhelp]

Knowing that a link from DMOZ is a great "vote" for a site, I'm concerned that the anchor text for my site does not contain any keywords.

Does this mean my site's PR doesn't get any "vote" from DMOZ for my keyword phrase? (And for that matter, no "vote" from any site that links to me with non-keyword-rich anchor text.)

Should I register a keyword rich domain and submit that? But then I'd be risking getting penalized for having multiple domains pointing to the same IP, right? Ugh!

I wonder...am I stuck with my non-keyword-rich domain, and thus anchor text that does Nada for my PR?

Thanks! (I'm trying to figure out why other sites are higher in rank when they have same PR, worse on-the-page factors, less inbound links, etc. - I'm starting to think it's my darn non-keyword-rich domain name)

[Beachboy]

The "vote" from Dmoz might or might not be important, depending on the PR of the category page on which your site is located, and how many ways that outbound PR is sliced and diced by links going to other sites.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Go find a couple places with some serious PR and talk them into linking to your place...with the most important kw phrase in the anchor text. A link from Dmoz isn't necessarily very important.

[lazerzubb]

I wouldn't worry to much, you can give it a try and try to get them to change the anchor text, i doubt they will do it though, but trying never hurts.

Also anchor text has nothing to do with PageRank, PageRank is calculated seperatly, Anchortext plays a very important roll in the G Algo, but it's not calculated in the PageRank formula.

PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))

[Shakil]

Both Yahoo and DMOZ use our company Name for the Anchor Text, as do a number of other directories.

However a lot of other links have keyword as anchor text.

Have not seen any neagtive outcome because of the above situation.

Shak

[needhelp]

Thank you all!