Gray Bars for DMOZ, Yahoo! & Google Directory Categories

May 25, 2005 - 12:05 pm 1 by
Filed Under Google Updates

During the last pagerank update it seems as if Google has gave the PageRank of death to many (not all) directory categories at the ODP, Google Directory and Yahoo! Directory.

Example specific categories that have been assigned a PageRank of 0, reported over at DigitalPoint Forums, include;

- http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories/ [Check SEO Chat PR Tool] - http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories/ [Check SEO Chat PR Tool] - http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web/Search_Engines_and_Directories/Directories/ [Check SEO Chat PR Tool]

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.

 

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