Mattcutts reiterates Yahoo Directory has plenty of Pagerank Internally.

Webmaster world has an interesting discussion about why Yahoo Directory is showing a grey bar for lot of pages. We already discussed here why a webpage has Grey Pagerank display. Most probably the reasons for Grey Pagerank is one of the reason we addressed in our article. Now webmaster world members are thinking Google has purposely imposed a Grey bar penalty for yahoo directory to reduce the Competition. For major sites like Yahoo directory Grey pagerank display could just be the problem inner pages are facing for many established sites. Google has imposed some sort of automated filter for inner pages of a site if the pages don't have good external links or doesn't feel its valuable. We see this across many of our pages in our site. I feel this is just temporary and Matt Cutts has cleared this up.

Matt Cutts replied this thread " It looks like it's just a matter of canonicalizing upper vs. lowercase as to why some of the subdirectories look the way they do in the toolbar. I just wanted to reiterate that the Yahoo Directory has plenty of PageRank in our internal systems."

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2 Comments:

Webcenter said...: If you are trying just to boost your Pagerank I wouldn't bother. If you want to pay the $300.00 fee you can submit your website and you will get considered for a link on a trusted well known directory. Pagerank changes all the time it can go up and down.; 3:27 AM
cainIV said...: Trust is trust, and if submitting to the Yahoo dir gets you trust, in this day and age, its a no brainer as far as I am concerned.; 3:28 AM