No category assigned to listing anymore. Should I be worried?

[georgec]

Hi:
My site is listed fairly well for a particular search term, though starting today, I noticed a category is no longer shown beneath the result, for example:

Category: Shopping > Home and Garden > Kitchen and Dining

Should I be worried about this? A category has always been shown beneath my search listing, so I don't understand why, what seems to be after this Google Dance, it no longer is.

Thanks,

[DaveN]

have you checked the google directory and the odp to see if your site is still listed in there.

the ODP moved a lot of cats around a couple of months ago and i'm seeing a few sites drop form the google directory this update which worries me slightly because I thought that google still had not received the new RDF dump could be wrong.

DaveN

[georgec]

Hi:
The site seems to still be listed in the Google directory/OD, though I'm not sure whether this is due to them not having updated yet. I'm curious how a category listing would be removed from a search result assuming the site is still in the directory; in this a forecast of something bad, like being dropped or penalized in some way?

Thanks,

[scrix]

I think it is out of sync both ways.

I have sites listed where the category is now missing and new sites showing category info that is not yet to be found in the Google directory.