Is there such a thing as a WebRank penalty?

Or is it beta for a good reason?

[mmarlor]

Well, Yahoo took its sweet time, but my site shows pretty good results in searches for various keywords on Yahoo. In fact, sometimes they're even better than the Google equivalent, although most of the time they're pretty much the same. If I look really carefully, I can even find forum topics from my site in there.. although it seems to be more of an ask than in Google.

The thing that bugs me, though, is I don't see any WebRank for my site. Other sites I browse to have WebRank, often much lower than I would expect (having trained on Google's PageRank, of course), but nonetheless; it's there, and it's generally working.

I've been very careful with changes I've made- things which I'd understood to be "best practice" before have gone now that I realise they might result in a penalty. The result is a site with very minimal SEO, and as a rule it hasn't seemed to hurt me in rankings.

I even just managed to get a Google Pagerank of 7/10 for my front page, primarily through people linking to our articles. But Webrank is still absent.

Am I doing something wrong? What qualifies one to receive WebRank? It's been a while, and I'm not sure where to go from here!

[2_much]

Hi Mmarlor, as webrank is beta not everyone got a chance to check it out. I myself haven't installed it, and never will. Any tool that provides that type of data is more detrimental in my opinion than helpful.
When it comes to Yahoo, I would worry more about traffic, then rankings, and forget completely about webrank.

[mmarlor]

To be absolutely honest, I could care less about the WebRank for the most part, just as Google PageRank is not totally essential (but very nice to have).

Yahoo is not the major provider of traffic for my site, Google is, but it would be nice to think that at some stage they could at least be the second largest provider of traffic. Hence, if WebRank has any bearing on positioning in Yahoo, I certainly do want to fix it for that purpoxe.

I guess the thing here is that I'd really like to understand whether WebRank is important to traffic, and if so, why even some major sites don't necessarily get it.