My site www.cosmeticsfairy.co.uk has a healthy PR3 and has done so for some time now, all my 1st click pages have a PR3, and my second and third clicks USED to have a PR2 - This has now gone. 1st step = http://www.cosmeticsfairy.co.uk/index.php?cPath=1 PR3 2nd step = http://www.cosmeticsfairy.co.uk/index.php?cPath=1_7 PR Gone 3rd step = http://www.cosmeticsfairy.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=1_7&products_id=208 PR Gone I suppose a little background on my site structure is needed first. If we can take - Eyes - Mascara as our starting point. I did originally have all my Mascara products only under the Mascara heading, as you can see these products goes into two pages. So to make products easier for my customers I divided the Mascara into categories waterproof, glitter etc. I have these products linked from the Mascara page to their relevant category/s. The Mascara page and the individual products have now lost their PR altogether. Have I made an error here and is there anything I can do to rectify it as my site appears to be going backwards in PR!! Many Thanks for you assistance Sarah.
Sarah, Your 2nd step URL seems to still have a PR3 by my accounts but only without the "www" subdomain (i.e, "http://cosmeticsfairy.co.uk/etc). This is part of the problem. Use Google Webmaster Tools to dictate which subdomain you want crawled and make sure you do a permanent redirect to the one you choose. I would suggest focusing much less on PR # specifically and just do what you think is right for optimization and link building.
just check your links. Maybe there are deadlinks or some of your link partners removed your links on them..
I think you should try and make the URLs Search Engine Friendly, without multiple variable values being passed.
Rosiee, What do you mean, my webmaster assures me that all the pages are search engine friendly, what wrong with them?? Thanks
Is it advisable to use Articles tailored to specific products to get deep links? or is that a bit too targeted for a article?
Well your webmaster then is telling you a fib let's say. h ttp://ww w.cosmeticsfairy.co.uk/index.php?cPath=40&osCsid=1fb5d2b36fba1ceac05526b26b619b12 That is not search engine friendly in any way shape or form. Better would be ht tp://ww w.cosmeticsfairy.co.uk/BodyCare/tanning-lotions.htm for example. This can be fixed with mod rewrite and .htaccess As for your webmaster, remember ....believe none of what you hear... and half what you see... Spaces added to break URLs
Actually the pages being dynamic would indicate the page names are not the same. Each product is given a session ID appended to the URL this is why the page names are not the same. The problem lies in the amount of variables passed in the URL string. Googlebot can handle two variables, but seems to have problems with 3 or more.