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1 year ago

in Google PageRank Directory Clanger on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Where does DMOZ take PR values from?

Could they be months old? If so, since you said that Google Directory took values from DMOZ, the Google Directory values could be old. Then, there's no correlation, whether Google Directory PR values are real or not.

If DMOZ were taking PR values from Google Toolbar, then they'd be the same as the old data.

Btw, I didn't see any PR values at both DMOZs atm. How do you get them?

Also, the article said that since Google updated its directory, it isn't going to rid of it.
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Andy Beard Yura

Google take an exported copy of the DMOZ directory, stick it on their servers, add the PageRank values, and then sort the results based upon PageRank

I think they also sort the sites of the same PageRank by how long they have been in the directory, which is why as I am a relatively new inclusion, just short of 1 year, my listings normally appear at the bottom of a particular catchment.

1 year ago

in Google PageRank Directory Clanger on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Where does DMOZ take PR values from?

Could they be months old? If so, since you said that Google Directory took values from DMOZ, the Google Directory values could be old. Then, there's no correlation, whether Google Directory PR values are real or not.

If DMOZ were taking PR values from Google Toolbar, then they'd be the same as the old data.

Btw, I didn't see any PR values at both DMOZs atm. How do you get them?

Also, the article said that since Google updated its directory, it isn't going to rid of it.
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Andy Beard Yura

Google take an exported copy of the DMOZ directory, stick it on their servers, add the PageRank values, and then sort the results based upon PageRank

I think they also sort the sites of the same PageRank by how long they have been in the directory, which is why as I am a relatively new inclusion, just short of 1 year, my listings normally appear at the bottom of a particular catchment.

1 year ago

in Why Blogs Suck on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Andrew, the right math would be 400/20000, which is still 2%.

20000/400 gets you 5000, but that isn't a conversion rate. That's how many visitors it takes you to get a subscriber, so the subscriber rate is still 1/5000th or 2%.


Maki has a point :)


Btw, I have a 0.59% subscription rate, using Google Analytics. Though its data is somewhat low, the conversion rate should be similar. Some people subscribe to other feeds on my blog that I don't track, such as from their browser (ya know, the feed button on the browser) other feeds, etc, but it is indeed lower than the coveted ecommerce 3%.

I noticed that my subscribers come from places, where I have commented or where my posts were cited. Google traffic does get me some subscribers, but the long tail is pretty strong.

I could argue about the rate that my site design sucks and that I post once or twice per week, though.

P.S. In Opera, the right column is under the main body.

1 year ago

in Why Blogs Suck on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Andrew, the right math would be 400/20000, which is still 2%.

20000/400 gets you 5000, but that isn't a conversion rate. That's how many visitors it takes you to get a subscriber, so the subscriber rate is still 1/5000th or 2%.


Maki has a point :)


Btw, I have a 0.59% subscription rate, using Google Analytics. Though its data is somewhat low, the conversion rate should be similar. Some people subscribe to other feeds on my blog that I don't track, such as from their browser (ya know, the feed button on the browser) other feeds, etc, but it is indeed lower than the coveted ecommerce 3%.

I noticed that my subscribers come from places, where I have commented or where my posts were cited. Google traffic does get me some subscribers, but the long tail is pretty strong.

I could argue about the rate that my site design sucks and that I post once or twice per week, though.

P.S. In Opera, the right column is under the main body.
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