Yahoo Directories affect on PR

Lucky Bastard · 10-09-2004, 06:00 AM

Hi,

A while ago I submitted my site to Yahoo directory foir approval, and it was approved in a PR7 category.

Will this help improve my current PR0 site? For what it is worth I have also submitted to and been approved by Sevenseek and bluefind.

But that really isn't my point, since my submission my site is now showing up in several other Y categories in their directory - but for different countries, ie:
http://au.dir.yahoo.com/...
http://ca.dir.yahoo.com/...
http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/...

..and some more, these categories each range from PR4 to PR5.

Now my main Q - does google treat all Y category/directories seperately and award on each of their PR or does Google ignore any duplicate entries (ie across regions, au,ca,uk) and just award based on 1 of the directories?

Does that make sense?

Sorry if it is a lame question, I am new to SEO.

smindsrt · 10-09-2004, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Lucky Bastard

Hi,

A while ago I submitted my site to Yahoo directory foir approval, and it was approved in a PR7 category.

Will this help improve my current PR0 site? For what it is worth I have also submitted to and been approved by Sevenseek and bluefind.

But that really isn't my point, since my submission my site is now showing up in several other Y categories in their directory - but for different countries, ie:
http://au.dir.yahoo.com/...
http://ca.dir.yahoo.com/...
http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/...

..and some more, these categories each range from PR4 to PR5.

Now my main Q - does google treat all Y category/directories seperately and award on each of their PR or does Google ignore any duplicate entries (ie across regions, au,ca,uk) and just award based on 1 of the directories?

Does that make sense?

Sorry if it is a lame question, I am new to SEO.

PR is page to page, meaning you could have 10 links from one site and each page passes PR.

What appears to get discounted is the anchor text value. If you have 10 links on a site it doesn't carry as much weight as 10 links on 10 different sites.

How new are the links from Y? It sounds like you will get some PR in the next update, hang in there.

awall19 · 10-09-2004, 04:29 PM

even if your pagerank shoots up you still want to try to get links from a broad base of IP ranges...meaning you should get links from lots of various sites.

PageRank itself has been deweighted quite a bit.

PRBot.Com · 10-09-2004, 06:07 PM

I agree with awall19. Try and get 1000s of links if you have the time and don't worry too much about PR of the sites you are getting links from.

10 links from 10 different sites on different IP blocks are worth more than 10 links from one site with PR10.

Max

awall19 · 10-09-2004, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by PRBot.Com

10 links from 10 different sites on different IP blocks are worth more than 10 links from one site with PR10.

in most cases I usually would disagree with that particular statement.

when links develop naturally it is likely that a site has many low power links pointing into it as compared to # of high power links...as such you should get a broad base and then maybe focus on a few powerful links...its all about not putting too many eggs in one basket.

Lucky Bastard · 10-10-2004, 03:43 AM

Thanks for the replies.

I fully agree about finding as many link patners or places to "add url". I have been doing that at the same time. I am listed in (just to mention a few) :
bluefind
sevenseek
yahoo
tygo
webworldindex
....

And always looking for more directories etc to get listed either free or pay (if very good) - not recip. link.

Also I have submitted to DMOZ but not sure when it will be reviewed - not holding my breath. This will lead to another Q in anotehr topic.

So anyway getting back to my previous question - do ALL those yahoo listings help with PR (to some degree) or does Google not pay attention as it is the same listing, same directory, just different Yahoo version (au, uk, sg etc)?