Hi, About 4 hours ago i changed my site which had a PR4. I had previously used a meta redirect from the domain home page to a different page (which would be the main landing page). I changed it by using .htaccess. At the time i also have ibl's being recognised from my websites own pages. Now having had .htaccess working the ibl's have dropped, missing out all but 2 of the links from my internal pages. The PR has also falled to 3. I was on 4 before. I hear rumours PR has increased, so is my situation temporary due to implementing the .htaccess (which i have since removed and gone back to meta redirect) or is it PR update which has decided to drop all my ibl's. Any ideas? Thanks Fuzz
I will not recommend meta redirect !! As it refreshes page and Search Engines dont like that !! Check this: SEO Redirects
what do you mean by it refreshes the page? do you think i just lost page rank in the update and thus the implementation of .htaccess didnt have anything to do with it?
Both of them are just redirect. Google will only pick the pr of the page those redirect directed to. In your case, most likely your pr got decreased from the lastest google update and got nothing to do with htaccess. One way to check is too look at how many backlinks your site have.
i would suspect that your site was due to become PR3 anyway. but also a bit confused that Google had you indexed at all if you had a meta refresh on the homepage tbh. Google's Webmaster Tools gives you immediate warnings about them not indexing the page if you have meta refreshes on them these days. and if that's the homepage.. ? personally I would go back to the 301 .htaccess and just be patient as it takes a little while for the PR and links to filter though to the destination. however with a 301 this should eventually happen and with a meta refresh it definitely won't. lose the refresh.