Important Websites With A Google PageRank Penalty

I have started a list off of the most important websites that have a PageRank penalty on my blog. So far I have got:

1. Environmental news network
2. The Irish Independent
3. The Wall Street Journal
4. The Times Of London
5. W3 Schools

If you know of any other really important websites that have been hit with a PageRank penalty, please let me know and I may add it to the list.

The list along with some more info. about the penalised sites can be found here:

http://www.seoco.co.uk/blog/2008/06/26/pr-penalised-authority-sites/

 

Can't understand why The Times has one. It will be interesting to see if Google fixes it.

 

That's really interesting. lots of authority sites in this list

 

I bet they get the page rank back within a month.

 

Very nice post. I never knew that W3 Schools got PR penalty for selling links.

 

Hmmm nice find but now on last update i saw many bloggers also whose pr were penalized . Now only few blogger give blogrolls .

 

now google still working on that... its really unfair for small sites....

 

Yes angelina, same here about W3school and also after heard Yahoo Directory's entertainment category and some other category of yahoo Directory. they've got also PR penalty for selling links.

and Thanks for posted helpful link and details.

John

 

Virtually the whole Yahoo Directory has Gray PR, go to the main page which has PR8 http://dir.yahoo.com/

Click the categories on the left, one click away from PR8 and they are gray. However according to Matt Cutts it's a canonical issue, the entertainment cat you mentioned has no PR but if you manually change the URL to lower case it does.

So it should come good next update.

 

ok Lets see in next updation of PR if its only canonical issue with yahoo dir's categories.

Thanks for pointed matt cutts point, can you give me that conversation's URL or I will try to search on his Blog.

John

 

Sure, Rustybrick made an entry here on SERoundtable which also contains a link to Webmaster World where Matt Cutts replied.

 

What? W3Schools was penalized by Google? What happen??? W3schools is a good site. I cant believe it will be penalized.

 

Yeah am sure as well that Yahoo Dir will get a PR on the next update... It's just a matter of time and as mentioned above a URL changing issue.

 

http://www.bullseyemedia.co.uk/