Hi, I have a site with is more then 10 years old. DMOZ and yahoo dir listed. (forgot that I had it ) Unfortunly the site is not on his own domain but with my internet provider (www.profidername.xx/username) Is it possible to forward the site to a new domein with a .htaccess 301 or 303 redirect without loosing the high pagerank of the site? Thanks.
PR is baased on domain first with its pages. You will loose PR initially but if you keep the good work, you can get the good PR back again. 301 or 302 redirects will just let your PR go down..
I don't agree with you. i change my domain and put 301 redirect via htaccess. on next update my new domain PR was changed. IMHO never use 302 redirect in such cases. and don't use php redirect, as u cann't redirect all pages of old domain to new domain (of course if u aren't going to put this code in all pages). htaccess is the best.
I changed my site from .net to .com and changed the entire directory structure of my site about 2 months ago, did all the proper permanent redirects, and still have not recovered from the PR drop. Not a great PR to start out with...3's on several of my pages, but I was happy with it and was getting good google traffic. But now I'm down to PR0 across the board. I've got a good number of sites still linking to .net address, but apparently this does not affect the PR of my .com address? I could contact the backlink sites and get them to change the link to the .com, but I was hoping the redirect would take care of that. Thanks for your thoughts.