At first.. my website.. was PR2... withing a month it dropped to PR1 and then PR0... (within this month)... and now.. the weirdest thing...today in the morning my Google PR script addon in firefox again showed PR1 and now PR 0.... Now that is encouraging.... Whats the matter with them? SOme personal enemity? lol
silvergadgets.com - pr1 www.silvergadgets.com - pr0 http://www.smartpagerank.com/result.php?domain=http://silvergadgets.com
woah... wat does that signify? www.silvergadgets.com -- 0 silvergadgets.com --- 1 I am confused.. both lead to the same page dont they?
so you mean... i need backlinks to both silvergadgets.com and www.silvergadgets.com to get a good PR...? and i thought getting it for one was troublesome!
U can do a 301 redirect to either one of them www or non www, so ur PR and all the backlink juice will get passed on only 1 domain and u wouldn't need to work on 2 things
okay... so giving any1 a redirect wud make them both PR1? or shud i redirect the PR 0 one to PR 1.... (I'll need some1 to explain me abt 301 redirect as well.. but later! lol) EDIT : Is this what you are suggesting?
yeah thats it just change the "domain" into your site and create a .htaccess file and paste that code and upload to your root server dzuster
but u still didnt tell me... wud giving any1 a redirect make them both PR1? or shud i redirect the PR 0 one to PR 1.... also in google webmaster tools (google.com/webmasters) has something like preferred domain.... will choosing one there help as well.. if so.. which one... silvergadgets.com -PR 1 or www.silvergadgets.com- PR 0
even if you change it now, it doesn't take effect immediately, the best thing to do is to check which of he two have your most inbound links then take it from there. though PR is important, search ranking is still the best.
Since none www got pr1 for your site. you better put this code. so everytime they will visit www.silvergadgets.com which is PR0 it will redirected to http://silvergadgets.com which has PR1 Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^http://www.silvergadgets.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ silvergadgets.com/$1 [r=301,nc] Code (markup):
Thnx mate!! By the way... i just checked backlinks http://www.smartpagerank.com/ for both of them... and u know what... when i check for "http://silvergadgets.com" is just gives a result -- http:// and for http://www.silvergadgets.com gives 68 (i.e all the actual backlinks...) and the worst part... http://silvergadgets.com has PR1... and not the other 1... i know this must be getting irritating, all these n00bish questions.... but.... Thanx in advance...
Ok you better go with www.silvergadgets.com since it has backlinks. Just wait for the pr update in august. Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^silvergadgets.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.silvergadgets.com/$1 [r=301,nc] Code (markup):
Yep, I would suggest doing a 301 redirect from domainname.com to www.domainname.com or via versa. You are loosing PR this way by having 2 urls. You look at it as one page but really it's not 1 page as it's 2 pages of the same content on 2 different urls. Watch out for domainname.com/index.html as well.
hmm.... well then.. i guess... I'll redirect silvergadgets.com to www.silvergadgets.com as this one shows the backlinks... I suppose backlinks is more imp ... so loosing that PR1 wud do.. isnt it?