Kinda weird thing about my first directory

Sorry if I am creating too many topics, I am a talkitive person The thing about www.addyoursitefreesubmit.com is that it really has a PR value of 4, however it displays as PR 0. If you use this url without the "www" you can see the PR value here:

http://addyoursitefreesubmit.com/

And it has a PR value of 2 when you include the index.php at the end with the "www" as well:

http://www.addyoursitefreesubmit.com/index.php

So everyday I am checking to see when Google updates because I hope that the main url retains the PR 4 or more rank as well. Do you think that it will?

 

This is caused by people linking to the non www, and your internal links pointing to your index.php (and not "/")

Google sees each of these as a different page. Try and link to your directory with the www. and change the internal links to "/".

It is important that you keep the same linking structure throughout your website to minimize the confusion to spiders.

RJ

 

I'm not sure about this but would it be possible to redirect the non- www. version to the www. and thereby got all the links and hence PR onto the "www" version of the homepage?

 

Hi rj87uk, yes actually I have changed all of the inner urls to that same structure a month ago, I suppose it will just take a while for Google to update the info. Thanks for the response, I guess I will just have to sit back and wait

 

Yes you can and yes you SHOULD do it but Sorry im not 100% sure on how. It should be a 302 redirect if I can remember but it changes a lot you should ask for more information on this point.

RJ

 

It should most definately be a 301 redirect (Permanentaly moved) and not a 302 (temporarily moved). You can do it in the script for the main page, Google for "301 redirect" and the scripting language you use. If you're on an Apache server you can also do this in httpd.conf but I have no idea how that is done (all my sites are on win/iis).

 

I did the same a few months back at the recommendation of a few. I used ISAPI Rewrite on a Windows server. For *nix servers, it would be mod rewrite.

 

301... I dont know why 302 stuck in my head. Thanks for the correction Perrow.

RJ

 

Ok, I used this following code to redirect http://addyoursitefreesubmit.com to http://www.addyoursitefreesubmit.com

It seems to work fine, so that will also direct the PR 4 rank to my www url in time?

 

Yes, I think this is always a good idea to do this. I notice Google, Yahoo and MSN do this too, so it must me important.

 

Sweet thanks