Dear me there is so much misinformation here, I don't know where to begin. I posted the answer for you right at the start, but because it didn't fit into YOUR view, you chose to ignore it. I will post it again. Page rank is ALL about the value of incoming links. It can be half a dozen links from high PR pages that have only a couple of outbound links, or it can be hundreds or thousands of lower value links. It REALLY is as simple as that. How long does it take to get into DMOZ? I have had sites listed within hours! I have other sites that have NEVER been listed. Live with it!
Really? I bet you were the editor of this categories. I've been submitting to dmoz for months and the result... zero
Get reciprocal link from higher PR websites/pages. If u can get link TO your site from sites having PR of 7 (or higher), that will be great.
it all comes back to good content (original)...maybe start a blog about your web site ....just a thought
No not at all . the thing is you see that there are thousands of editors that log on daily or weekly and edit. They add sites to the index, approve existing sites etc on a regular basis. Thing is though you rarely hear about the good things, as in life in general it is the bad news that travels better.
I still can't believe it... it contradicts all I know about dmoz. Though maybe I was submitting to the wrong category Anyway where did you submit? Is it business, sport etc.?
Business and sport. My rugby forum was placed in DMOZ without my knowing, within a month or so of going live. I also submitted it to another cat, and it was accepted there (you can have one generic, and one local entry in DMOZ). My local region of Wales is edited superbly well. Normally it is never more than a few weeks. On this occasion, and hard to believe. I submitted my site to the index on a friday, It was accepted, and to make things even sweeter, Google updated their directory on the sunday with the new dat and my site in it Happy man. This was a one off, but it just goes to prove that DMOZ isn't as bad as people say. If I might be so bold as to say though. You say it 'contradicts all you know about DMOZ', but this is just it, we only hear the bad things. BTW I am NOT a DMOZ editor, I was rejected multiple times, and in the end gave up. I do edit other directories, including being the Editor for the UK in Skaffe. Sites never sit there longer than a few days before being dealt with, and I also add any good sites I come across without them being submitted. This is what an editor should be doing IMO. The problem with DMOZ is spam. the world and their brother submit spam sites, or submit decent sites to the wrong category. Many things you can rush, submitting to DMOZ is not one. (when I say spam, the site itself might be decent enough, but the title description etc have not been written according to the guidelines). The biggest complaint is wrong cat, then spam titles, then bad descriptions I would say.
I am going to share my secret to PR Success. Setup your site with 1 page -- A splash page and get 3 PR 5 Sites to link to it. Submit to google Within 6 months you have a pr5
I was actually thinking about one page or just smaller sites. I have a couple newer sites that just have a few well optimized pages. Then I got distracted with other projects. Those little sites are doing pretty well. While the bigger ones are still waiting for pagerank to trickle down in reduced weight to the heavy content pages. I think I'll throw more small sites into the mix of things I'm building.
This is just my understanding from what I hear repeated and challenged. To some extent that is true, assuming the page has PR to begin with. Two unknown pages that link to themselves would pass no PR. PR is not a natural law of the universe or anything. Internal links count, but to some varying extent. If you have a new site with many deep pages and pick a few at random to link deeply to from home, those pages will index and attain rank quicker. There are limits of course. You can't put a million links on your home page and get much benefit, but then again since it isn't a natural law, maybe there is some flaw in the algorithm that kicks in at exactly a million inner links. Somebody want to run that test? Given the worlds most powerful computer, I would enjoy having it search for such cracks...ok in it's spare time it can cure cancer.
Yes, a page can share (and keep, not lose) up to 85% of the value of its own page rank through out going links
Ok, so if you have a site which is PR4 and it has lets say 3 links. So after you add another 10 links, this site's PR will be less? I'm still not getting it.. thanks
I have two search engines that are dedicated to the automotive industry, and I'll be glad to add any sites that are related to this field of interest, we won't add non related sites but this should help some of the people here to get links to their sites. This is the first one it has a pr of 3 http://hp-car.com/cgi-bin/search/search.pl here is the second one this one has a pr of 2 http://red-line-resto.com/cgi-bin/search/search.cgi but you'll have to email the webmaster to submit your site webmaster@red-line-resto.com I also run a blog and community for muscle cars and automotive where yo can add links, the blog will allow two links per comment, but we will only add comments that are related to the post that your commenting on and the blog is also a pr3 http://muscle-car-resto.com/blog/ And on all of my sites we have links pages that have medium prs. We'll be glad to add your links to your sites. David C. Atkin