Hi chaps, In order to consolidate my PR, I've set specific requests for my home page (www.dvd-subtitles.com/index.php) to redirect to the domain (www.dvd-subtitles.com). This is because I used to get PR3 for www.dvd-subtitles.com/index.php and PR4 for www.dvd-subtitles.com, even though they're the same page. This seemed like a good idea at the time. However, this page: http://www.rustybrick.com/pagerank-prediction.php predicts that my PR for www.dvd-subtitles.com/index.php will go from 4 to 10, whereas my PR for www.dvd-subtitles.com will stay at 4. Have I made a mistake redirecting? Would it be better to reverse the redirect (redirect www.dvd-subtitles.com to www.dvd-subtitles.com/index.php) or not redirect at all? Thanks in advance! Mat
it sounds fine, just be careful if you use dynamic urls such as index.php?page-name as this would redirect to ?page-name and of course a 404 error
Thats strange. I have many sites where the navigation says "Home" and the link goes to index.html However index.html is not indexed. I wonder if it's different for php extensions ? Is the behavior a function of the server or the search engine ?
as far as the server is concerned, "index.php" accepted as the default page as much as "index.html", so the domain name (without page) always goes to index.php. However, in my case google appears to have indexed mydomain.com/index.php separately from mydomain.com/. Any other observations? Mat
nope dont believe it is, but if you have links pointing to domain.com/ then this page would have been indexed and not index.html because .com/ and index.html are the same page, and would be classed as dupe content so the lesser page (index.html) would have been dumped. makes sense right
I had some pages indexed for the / and the /index.php - so I did a 301 from the index.php to / and made sure all my links pointed to the / Havent gotten to see the results yet, because I did it just after the PR update.