Changed site location and lost PR

randelld · #1 (**permalink**) 02-11-2007, 01:03 PM

Hi all,
I had a forum at www.mysite.com/forum with a pr of 4
The fact that the forum was in a folder and not root had been bugging me for some time. Partly because I want it to rank for different keywords to the main site. A lot of directories only want a root domain so I moved it to forum.mysite.com
I have put in place 301 permanent redirects but google has completely dumped the site while MSN and Yahoo have it as number 1 page1.
I thought if you used 301 permanents you managed to hold onto any PR ??? No?

Webnauts · #2 (**permalink**) 02-12-2007, 07:18 AM

How can you tell that you have lost your PageRank?

kgun · #3 (**permalink**) 02-12-2007, 07:53 AM

By the way. For Google, I do not think you need to use redirects any longer. Google uses what is named "preferred domain name" as part of their web master tools.

Once you tell us your preferred domain name, it may help us determine PageRank for your site more accurately.

randelld · #4 (**permalink**) 02-12-2007, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Webnauts

How can you tell that you have lost your PageRank?

Hi Webnauts, Firstly, the forum no longer exists in googles index for the phrse "spain forum" and secondly no PR on the google tool bar.

Kgun,
I do need to use redirect because I have a lot of inbound links that are now pointing to the wrong place.

Webnauts · #5 (**permalink**) 02-12-2007, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by randelld

Hi Webnauts, Firstly, the forum no longer exists in googles index for the phrse "spain forum" and secondly no PR on the google tool bar.

Are you sure the forum does not exist in Googles index? and second the toolbar values are not accurate. Wait for the next toolbar export, and then tell if it is gone or not.

randelld · #6 (**permalink**) 02-12-2007, 09:29 AM

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Wait for the next toolbar export, and then tell if it is gone or not.

Sorry, What do you mean by this??

In my google account page it says that they have indexed my site so i suppose it must be in there somewhere, but it's not on any of the front pages of the search results.

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**incrediblehelp** · #7 (**permalink**) 02-12-2007, 09:14 PM

What is listed in the toolbar as PR is not up to date. So don't ever go by this. As long as your redirects are in place from your old page to your new page your "PR", traffic and rankings should eventually come back. It just takes time when this move happens. Be patient.