yahoo listing

if your site is listed in yahoo, does the PR of the cat. count?

[teeceo]

thats my question. if your listed in yahoo under say "sports cars" and the top of the yahoo page shows a pr 1 or 2, is that the pr that googlebot reads when counting that link?

teeceo.

[heini]

Yup. PR is calculated on a per page basis.
So if your listing is on a PR2 page, then the PR of that page gets shared over all outgoing links.

[hurlimann]

Most people here would say yes. How it effects your pages PR is another matter: Google have been thought to apply a factor to directory listings

[jackofalltrades]

Good question!

Ive always wondered what affect ODP data dumps have on your PR.

For example, if you get in a high PR ODP category, then a few months down the line you will be in a few hundred high level ODP data driven directories, so the high PR should be passed on and therefore your OPD category has quite a large bearing on your PR.

I would imagine that any directory category would pass on PR, although ODP may be singled out as a special case.

So Yahoo should be fine.

But dont quote me on that! :) Perhaps someone else can offer a more definite answer!

JOAT

<added>ah! they already have! ;)</added>