Is Yahoo a bad neighbourhood?

yahoo pr0

[shady]

I have a site listed in both the UK and US Yahoo directories.
I have noticed that the UK directory page is a PR0 (page details below)

Might this be considered a bad neighbourhood by google and be detremental to my PR?

Directory: uk.dir.yahoo.com
Section:
/Regional/Countries/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/
Shopping_and_Services/Communication_and_Information_Management/Mobile_Communications/Cellular/Telephones/

[mack]

The theroy that we all seam to belive in is that you cannot be harmed by links to you, no matter where they come from. The only way you can really harm your ranking by links is to link your site to a bad neighbourhood.

I dont think bad neighbourhood really means PR0 pages. I think there is a lot more to it than simply the PR of the page. I think a bad neighbourhood is a page that has had a penalty. I cant see google giving a yahoo directory page a penalty. If it was simply based on PR than there is no way that sites could gain any PR in the first place. Pr has to be based on links and I cant see any good reason for Google to penalise a site for linking to a PR0 site, because it is your links that will eventualy give that page some more PR.

:)

[maccas]

The uk.dir.yahoo.com version is a pr0 because it is not indexed in Google so it is estimating its pr and since it is 9 levels deep it is given a estimate of 0 (legitimate pr0..no penalty). Replace the uk.dir.yahoo.com with dir.yahoo.com and it has a pr of 3 and is indexed in Google.

[john316]

Shady:

Are you ranking well for the kw associated to the shopping and services/...kw?

[2_much]

Also, I always associate the penalties with webmaps, not PR. Would Google see a Yahoo page as part of a webmap? No way. Maccas explanation sounds right on, so I wouldn't worry that the link is going to hurt your site.

[shady]

Thanks mack, maccas and 2_much, that makes me feel better.

Hi john316

My site is relatively new and currently does not rank well in my important keywords in google.
I do receive a fair amount of free traffic from lesser used keywords (subpages) and from yahoo (uk) for main keywords.
I have just managed to increase my PR from 4 to 5, which will hopefully give more weight to the links in my subpages which in turn may (?) help my main keywords ranking, as this is contained in the anchor text of all the links.