Agree completely with your analysis, with one small exception. Tucows.com has an extremely high page rank, but the link is also weighted by traffic to the page providing the link and the page in question here has very low (in context) traffic.
Regards Elliot Noss Tucows inc. 416-538-5494 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of George Kirikos > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Referral List > > > Hello, > > --- Elliot Noss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Last, the referral list, IMHO, will not help with Google as the link > > is only > > on the last page of the process, which does not have huge traffic, > > and which > > has the company name not "domain names" or something else as the > > link, so it > > will only help "Company X" if someone is searching Google for > > "Company X" > > other than in a very, very limited sense. > > I'm not sure this is what folks meant by the Google Pagerank impact > (NB: I don't want to be in any referral list, so this has no effect on > me one way or the other). If you load www.Tucows.com into a web-browser > (with the Google Toolbar installed), Tucows has a pagerank of "8" on > the 0 to 10 scale (scale is logarithmic, like the Richter scale, so 8 > is actually quite impressive; Yahoo.com is a '10' in comparison, > Google.com a '9', SnapNames.com a '7', my personal website a '6' (I > have a lot of links to me!), etc. > > Any link from Tucows to somewhere else will be weighted a lot more than > if *I* made the link from my site, for instance, as Google thinks that > Tucows is "important" compared to me, and gives it a greater influence > in it's ranking scheme. It doesn't matter if it's in a low traffic page > within Tucows, what matters is the pagerank of the page/site you link > from. > > Empirically, this is one reason folks prize expired names that are > anywhere in Yahoo's directory (even if it's a crappy category). One can > use that pagerank to move other sites into a high position in Google, > say for porn, viagra, and all the other highly competitive search > terms. > > Thus, someone searching for "domain registrar in Iowa", who is linked > to from Tucows (and thus gains brownie points/PageRank due to that > link) will rank higher than someone else who doesn't have those quality > incoming links... note: they might not be found on the page that listed > them on Tucows' site, but their own site will be found due to all the > incoming links they earned in Google's database. > > What's the value of this, then? Well, Yahoo charges $299 to get listed > in their directory, per year....so it's worth something getting the > exposure... > > Sincerely, > > George Kirikos > http://www.GlobalDomination.com/ <<-- increasing Pagerank of one of my > other domains by this post, as Google indexes the archives of the > mailing list! ;) >
