Hey every one, I'm not sure if this is the right place to out my question on. I've a client angelbio.com he has recently redesigned the website and all the previous webpages are accessible no more. Now the question is that those webpage certainely got 3+ page rank each, is there anyway i can shift their page rank to new pages? and secondly, i have some back-links from authorized websites to those old web-pages (which are accessible no more) and clicking on those lick give error 404 or something. Is there anyway i can redirect all the traffic which is landing on unknown pages to homepage? Thanks in advances, i really appreciate our suggestions
You'll have to do a 301 redirect for those pages. But I'm wondering why after a site redesign, your client's site is inaccessible. Anyway, 301 redirects usually takes care of such an issue. I don't guarantee that the PR juice will follow though. It usually does - but no guarantees
The site is inaccessible because in previous site in news section there were press releases, those press releases were published various places online with a link site (old homepage) now that page doesn't exist. Therefore give 301 error. I was wondering that 301 redirect thing to every page or just the root of website. But thanks anyways for the replay.Â
there've lots many things for PR algorithm of google. as far as i think, your overall site rank will not affect with your redesigned cause the domain name still the same and all the incoming links from other sites to your main site are still working. you can redesign your pages anywhere as you want but remember to keep the inner pages name or hyperlinks as same as it previous if your internal pages also have higher PR. changing or doing redesigns of our pages doesn't affect your PR.
Thanks a lot for answering mate, but i just need to confirm one thing. If you have a small website with fairly limited number of pages then you can design new webpages exactly on the old webpage links, but if the website is big and has numerous inner pages then how can you do that?