Hello,
For a web site I have, I needed to redesign it while switching to WordPress. The redesigned website has a different url structure. So, I did the 301 permanent redirect using the .htacces file and forwarded all the old urls to the new urls.
One of the old url had pagerank 3. It had a lot of backlinks to that url. After switching to the new url, the pagerank was set to 0 for almost a year. Just checked it today and the pagerank of this page with the new url is 2.
My question is: will 301 redirect carry the old pagerank to the new page? What is the safest way to preserve the pagerank while changing the urls?
Thanks in advance for your help! http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2010/03/google-confirms-301-redirects-result-in-pagerank-loss.html
Quote: I can certainly see how there could be some loss of PageRank. I am not 100 percent sure whether the crawling and indexing team has implemented that sort of natural PageRank decay, so I will have to go and check on that specific case. (Note: in a follow on email, Matt confirmed that this is in fact the case. There is some loss of PR through a 301). It will take some time for Google to transfer your PR of old domain to new domain. Meanwhile you can try changing the back links to pointing toward the new domain
Hope it works for you...!!!
Regards If you have done 301 redirect from your old url to new one then it will not affect your old pr, it will be again alloted by google for new one also rather it will take some time to reflect it. Continue with your work don't worry for PR you will get it back. Try adding unique content in your website regularly. yes it takes some time to shifting the PR to new domain. the new url will also gain benefit from old one.
For a web site I have, I needed to redesign it while switching to WordPress. The redesigned website has a different url structure. So, I did the 301 permanent redirect using the .htacces file and forwarded all the old urls to the new urls.
One of the old url had pagerank 3. It had a lot of backlinks to that url. After switching to the new url, the pagerank was set to 0 for almost a year. Just checked it today and the pagerank of this page with the new url is 2.
My question is: will 301 redirect carry the old pagerank to the new page? What is the safest way to preserve the pagerank while changing the urls?
Thanks in advance for your help! http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2010/03/google-confirms-301-redirects-result-in-pagerank-loss.html
Quote: I can certainly see how there could be some loss of PageRank. I am not 100 percent sure whether the crawling and indexing team has implemented that sort of natural PageRank decay, so I will have to go and check on that specific case. (Note: in a follow on email, Matt confirmed that this is in fact the case. There is some loss of PR through a 301). It will take some time for Google to transfer your PR of old domain to new domain. Meanwhile you can try changing the back links to pointing toward the new domain
Hope it works for you...!!!
Regards If you have done 301 redirect from your old url to new one then it will not affect your old pr, it will be again alloted by google for new one also rather it will take some time to reflect it. Continue with your work don't worry for PR you will get it back. Try adding unique content in your website regularly. yes it takes some time to shifting the PR to new domain. the new url will also gain benefit from old one.