Google PR didnt hit our homepage, but got our subpages...

Discussion in 'SEO' started by jhonson, Apr 9, 2006.

  1. #1
    hi...

    Why is it that we have dozens of PR5, PR4 and PR3 internal pages but our homepage is just PR0 ?(secure-finance.co.uk)

    Every subpage is linked back to our homepage (full URL)

    I thought the frontpage always had the highest PR...

    Thanks for any opinions
    -Jhonson
     
    jhonson, Apr 9, 2006 IP
  2. Link.ezer.com

    Link.ezer.com Peon

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    #2
    I had PR0 problem before::
    It was redirected to a sub domain since it was a new-born website
    I got PR0 for main domain .....
    Now I stop using redirection and it gains PR

    you may also check your robots.txt
    ..... user-agent: * disallow:
    I think you disallow all no robots to visit your homepage
    so you shall also get no SEs indexed for your homepage at all.....
     
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  3. rehash

    rehash Well-Known Member

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    #3
    seems like you link from your subpages to www. secure-finance.co.uk/index.html instead of www. secure-finance.co.uk
     
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  4. Link.ezer.com

    Link.ezer.com Peon

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    #4
    That is right, showing index.html will be indexed..
    If you do not want to change robots.txt.......:D
     
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  5. mad4

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    #5
    Create a .htaccess file with the following code:
    
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.html\ HTTP/ 
    RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://www.secure-finance.co.uk [R=301,L] 
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^secure-finance.co.uk
    RewriteRule (.*) http://www.secure-finance.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
    
    Code (markup):
    and replace the code <a href="index.html">Home</a> with <a href="http://www.secure-finance.co.uk/">Home</a> on all your pages.
     
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    I have seen this with newer sites or sites that I have increased backlinks to quickly.
     
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  7. Mong

    Mong ↓↘→ horsePower

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    #7
    Its because every page is separate webpage for search engines and you have to optimize every single page to get better ranking not to mention that it is homepage or not. :)
     
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    #8
    First I'm sorry but I don't see any PR for any subpage. All the pages are PR zero here. Second the robots.txt is valid and allows ALL robots to access the entire site and each directory/file within. Third I think Google is clever enough to recognize and index.html file to be the homepage alike, hence giving each the exact same PR...
     
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  9. mad4

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    #9
    Actually google has big problems with canonicalization of urls. Its always best to use the htaccess trick and to make sure you link to the right places.

    No PR: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/2006/03
    PR7 : http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/2006/03/
     
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