Theory

[newriver]

I strongly suspect that ODP listings are having a much greater effect on alltheweb.com results.

In my targeted search term, all the top twenty results have listings in ODP. They display the meta information in the results, but I think that because the site has a dmoz listing, it is more favorably ranked than it once was.

Do some research on your own, and find a relatively competitiove search term, and see if any of the top ten results do not have a dmoz listing as well.

[rmridgew]

ive been looking for the exception but cannot find it,

thought id post some other info im finding ill let you know if i find a pattern

for the term "fly fishing" searched for 29962 times in november

ive got three sites a, b, and c

alltheweb rank: a#1--------b#2--------and c#3

# of ODP listings: a (1)-----b (2)-------c (9)

ODP rank: a#66-------------b#427----------c#113

[newriver]

ouch, alltheweb.com has been down for about a half hour.....i wouldn't even let my site down that long