: No pagerank on sites-listing pages in Directories I started researching directories to add my website and noticed a pattern - in every directory the page with links to websites has no Pagerank,

@Angie530

These sites have thousands of links in them, so any page rank is soon going to get diluted.

In your example, www.submissionwebdirectory.com/computers_and_internet is linked to from every page of that site and so would be expected retain quite a bit of the page rank sloshing around, but www.submissionwebdirectory.com/computers_and_internet/product_information_and_reviews/ is only linked to from one page which has over 250 other links on it. If not a zero page rank, it would still be expected to at least have a very low one.

Whilst Yahoo won't harm you as they are a big brand, people using directories for page rank were hit by Google's penguin update, and so I'm pretty sure you would be risking a penalty by using untrusted directories.

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@Alves908

I found this from 2008 which appears to be exactly what you are seeing: www.seroundtable.com/archives/017333.html
There is a partial answer here linked from the previous page: www.seroundtable.com/archives/017363.html
This answers your question specifically for the situation you are seeing. A deeper explanation could be made about PageRank throughout a site and that is good and valid information. However, this answer speaks specifically to the phenomenon of the Google toolbar not recognizing PageRank for Yahoo!.

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