In case you missed the big event, on October 26th, Yahoo! has officially shutdown all GeoCities.com websites. IYou will notice the major search engines have also removed all links to these pages if you search for site:geocities.com in either Google, Bing or Yahoo.
The SEO impact of this shutdown is potentially huge. Let’s take a look at the numbers:
- There were 7,450,000 GeoCities URLs indexed in Google
- GeoCities.com had around 10 million visitors in September
- GeoCities URLs ranked in the top 20 of Google for around 680,000 different keywords.
What are your thoughts?
