Explained the point well and I solute you.
-- Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4CheapDomains.Net Need Advertising? Try DeerSearch.Com http://www.DeerSearch.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Kirikos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:46 AM 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! ;) >
