DMOZ and Google PagerRank question.

How much will being listed on DMOZ contribute to my PageRank? I just recently got listed and wanted to know what to expect.

 

Depends on in which category you was listed. PR4 is a common average to expect IMHO.

 

I noticed that no other pages have Rank on DMOZ besides the homepage. Is my toolbar broken or is this right? I punched the URL (a few categories) to some PageRank tools and they return a 0 PageRank.

 

I see the same thing, corduroy.

As for your initial question, as subseo indicated, it depends partly on the PR of the page on which your listing occurs. Assuming a PR4, then the next step is to count ALL the outgoing links on that page, including yours and including any internal DMOZ navigation links. Then to get an approximation of how much PR value your listing can provide to your home page (or internal page if that's the one listed), use this forumla:

PR received = 0.85 * {PR of DMOZ page}/{# outgoing links on DMOZ page}

 

The toolbar is always broken in that it's usually out of date (whilst the 'real' PR is kept continuously up to date behind the scenes). Also Google seems to be in a state of disarray at the moment after all the updates, so maybe that's a symptom.

 

Are you seeing that on other sites, hooperman?

 

My toolbar actually does show PR for the pages I've looked at on dmoz.

 

British PR - that doesn't count.

 

I probably put it on upside down.

 

This change happened more than a month back, during the PR update we had in April / May. Most of the internal pages don't have a PR anymore...

 

Rosiee...was this a bug or Google's intention?

 

Close to 0.

 

Are you looking at http://www.dmoz.org? If so, then yes, all of the subcats have no PR - try http://dmoz.org

http://www.dmoz.org/Health/ PR0
http://dmoz.org/Health/ PR7

 

As stated by google, a DMOZ link passes no more PR than any other backlink. If your site is a PR0, then it might give you a low PR. If the page is a PR4 or higher, then you will likely see no difference. As stated above, it also depends on how many links are on the page, and the page PR.

 

in my experience being listed in dmoz didn't help pr at all