PR and 301 ?

[Notorious]

The PR on my site is like this-

/ = PR3
/index.php = PR2
/index.php? = PR1

should I 301 redirect /index.php & /index.php? to / or leave it as it is ?

[Morishani]

redirect 301 to "/" :)

[mad4]

Redirect all of them to www.yoursite.com always use absolute urls.

[agnivo007]

301 redirect http://yoursite.tld , http://yoursite.tld/index.php , http://yoursite.tld/index.php? to http://www.yoursite.tld

[Notorious]

Thanks guys,much appreciated.

[web-spy]

301 redirect to http://example.com/

[RaZoRLeGaCy]

Is a 301 redirect the same as a [R:Permanent}?

if not, what advantage does this one have?

[nddb]

Is a 301 redirect the same as a [R:Permanent}?

if not, what advantage does this one have?

Yes, if you google "HTTP status codes" you should find all the different types of redirects, but use a 301.

[Notorious]

Is a 301 redirect the same as a [R:Permanent}?

if not, what advantage does this one have?

its the same thing,you can choose any of these-

example-
redirect 301 /index.html http://www.domain.com/index.html
redirect permanent /index.html http://www.domain.com/index.html
redirectpermanent /index.html http://www.domain.com/index.html

[web-spy]

what you propose would create a loop

[master06]

I think a 301 redirection would be helpful. your all different page (index.html, http://yourdomain.com, yourdomain.com, www.yourdomain.com etc..) redirect one page. This is the best way.

Regards,
Mustafa

[adwordaffiliate]

Sounds like you're running Invision Power Board? :p

[master06]

no i didnt use invision but if your host provide apache server everything is ok. looks here you will some redirect codes http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/2006/10/03/remove-old-pages-or-content-from-the-google-index-and-301-redirects/

Regards,
Mustafa

[Design1]

what you propose would create a loop

I agree. I had tried this before and ended up with a loop, since it is reading the same page.

[rehash]

sometimes google manages to see itself it's the same site and will put the same PR even if you dont redirect

[Notorious]

sometimes google manages to see itself it's the same site and will put the same PR even if you dont redirect

http://www.site.com http://site.com / /index.php /index.php? are all different pages for google.

[Burta]

So what would setting up a redirect like this do for you PR and SERPs? I'm assuming it would help, yes?

[aditya_sfs]

Always be sure that all links pointing to your site are http://www.domain.com ... If you have internal pages all pointing to http://www.domain.com/index.html and some links to http://www.domain.com then the PR gets distributed. I hope you ae getting what i mean

[Burta]

OK so I have a site with the follow PR:

http: //www. site.com/ - PR 5
http: //www. site.com/index.php - PR 4
http: //site.com/ - PR 5
http: //site.com/index.php - PR4

So if I did a 301 redirect all to say http: //www. site.com/ that might give me an overal PR6 or something?

[adwordaffiliate]

OK so I have a site with the follow PR:

http: //www. site.com/ - PR 5
http: //www. site.com/index.php - PR 4
http: //site.com/ - PR 5
http: //site.com/index.php - PR4

So if I did a 301 redirect all to say http: //www. site.com/ that might give me an overal PR6 or something?

Have you set up a sitemap & set the preferred domain? This will fix the www.site.com vs site.com issue.

[sourcer]

I tried to add 301 to my websites like you guys said before and here is what i got:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@sourcer.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/1.3.36 Server at www.sourcer.org Port 80

Here is the code that i put in .htaccess


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sourcer.org [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.sourcer.org/$1 [L, R=301]

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# index.php to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301, L]


What is wrong ?

[sourcer]

Can someone help me with that ? Please !

[PurpleCow]

yes... that should definetly improve your site PR considering you have given 301 redirects to only one possible domain www.example.com

[sourcer]

yes... that should definetly improve your site PR considering you have given 301 redirects to only one possible domain www.example.com

I haven't given 301 redirects to www.example.com because i have an ERROR !