tedster - 2:58 pm on Jun 14, 2008 (gmt 0)

For those who may not have seen it - here's our discussion about Yahoo's gray bars, with a comment from Matt Cutts:

It's possible that Yahoo changed their linking somehow, or that there was an issue on our side with how we canonicalized a url, but I do know that the Yahoo Directory has PageRank in our internal system, so I'll ask folks here about it. Thanks for mentioning this. [webmasterworld.com...]

BOTW has been showing a lot of interal gray bars for quite a while. Not only that, one site I work with runs a human edited directory as just part of the whole, has also been showing a similar pattern since last fall - visible and strong PR on top level pages only, then an abrupt drop-off to gray bar.

I have done a bit of testing, and the gray bar pages still appear to send help. After all, gray bar indicates "no data" and not zero (an all white bar).