I have been running a site successfully for the last 2 years. Its at Page rank 4 with 900 backlinks. I am now using a different script to run the same site. However, earlier site used index.php, while the new script iam using is using home.php So, my page rank is showing up as 0 with 0 backlinks. What are my options now? Should i change home.php to index.php? This may not be as simple as it sounds, but iam looking forward to any suggestions or hear from people who have gone through similar thing. Thanks link
Have you tried just renaming home.php to index.php? I would take the script in question, open up every file in Notepad++ or something similar, where you could search all files at once for any relation to home.php and replace them with index.php. There may also be references to home.php in a database!
Change home.php to index.php. It should be easier than have all backlinks to index.php re-index for home.php
If you can't easily point home.php to index.php, maybe you should consider a 301 redirect. It all depends on your setup...
Snowbird: Thanks for 301 redirect suggestion. I will do some more research there. c4cyber,diligenthost: I have actually changed all references to home.php from index.php. This was painful, because there were many pages that i had to chang abd all message file. The script uses smarty template and is bit sophisticated in how they managed this huge script. Thanks again for your responses. My PR and backlinks are back. link