Changing Site Design - Will My PR2 disappear??

Hi All.....

Quick question....my current site http://www.italianhomerecipes.com
is a PR2.......i am changing the site into a wordpress site http://www.italianhomerecipes.com/italianhomerecipes/italianhomerecipe/

am i gonna lose my PR2 rank?????

please advise

thanks
tony

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

 

pagerank is based on links

it shouldnt hurt your page rank unless the people linking to you hate your new design and de-link you (even though you shouldnt be worrying about your pagerank anyways)

 

true....was just curious as to what happens.....new site is the exact same design as old site is...except..new site will be wordpress...old site is static.....yet the look/site design will be the same.....

 

i think you would need to do a 301 redirect to get all the juice.

 

www.yourdomain.com won't lose pr (unless your deep pages are getting a lot of links)
Ä°f your main page was www.yourdomain.com/index.html and your new main page is www.yourmaindomain.com/index.php then it won't have pagerank until the next update , this applies to the inner pages to.
(of course we are talking about the toolbar pagerank , the realpagerank will be updated on the fly )

 

Main page should be not touched, but it's difficult to say what happens with inner sites. PR2 is not to much, so they can get probably it with the firs update, without any difficulty.

 

If only the design were to be changed, the PR will not be affected. Assuming the new site still reside in the old domain name

 

Simple answer is no. Unless you make your side so fugly that all your link partners delete your link

 

it will not change because page rank is only related with your backlinks. it's not related your site designor theme

 

Additionally, don't forget about your internal links. Make all of your pages pointing at the main page.

 

u mean i should put internal links on my other pages...and have them point to my main page?...how does this help??

 

Try to retain URL's of pages with good rank. Also after your design start using if your not already the google site maps tool. This will help get things re-indexed properly for your deep content. Google prefers well coded sites so converting to wordpress will help your rank in short/long term.

After your design is done do a press release to announce it. Prfree.com or prweb.com

 

make sure to 301 the inner .html pages into the equivalent wordpress posts

 

it can affect your PR 'coz the older site is the one with PR2 and if you change it to another site without PR. The best thing to do is just redirect you old site to your new site...

 

thats wat i had said earlier, if he wants all the juice he would need to do a 301 redirect to the new domain.

 

how do i do this??..thru my cpanel??...is it easy to do?...i currently havent changed my original site...my new site is a sub-directory...do i just rename my new site with the same original domain ?

 

Shouldn't lose any pageRank, but I would suggest keeping your meta tags in tact or you may lose natural ranking.

 

I converted my oldest site from basic html pages to Joomla. I had the same concern. I am glad I did it the site maintained the same PR and all the internal pages are showing pr2. It could be a fluke. I have not promoted the inner pages or went out and got backlinks.

 

thata what im doing also...from basic html to wordpress....how did u do it?...redirect from old to new??...or just uploaded new site over old site??