Help with internal Page Rank

Brian-Bear · #1 (**permalink**) 09-13-2005, 06:29 AM

I know, I know before you all start jumping up and down, screaming, weaping and nashing of teeth etc, can anyone explain why we cannot get internal page rank from Google in our web directory as listed in my signature. The searches are all database driven, any ideas for a fix greatly appreciated.

coder · #2 (**permalink**) 09-13-2005, 10:00 AM

Your internal pages do have a PR, they all look to be 2/10.

http://www.putmyfinger.co.uk/ASERegNotify.asp
http://www.putmyfinger.co.uk/ASEImproveRanking.asp

Unless you are referring to your dynamically driven pages, if you want them ranked use a url re-write. Even though I can't really see a reason to try to increase your pr on those pages.

**brian.mark** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-13-2005, 01:10 PM

Google recently modified their Information for Webmasters. There looks to be a clue there.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Google Information for Webmasters

Don't use "&id=" as a parameter in your URLs, as we don't include these pages in our index.

If you want to get those internal pages of your directory with some PR and ultimately some rankings, you'll want to try mod_rewrite (or ISAPI Rewrite on IIS) or chage the parameter to something like "CATEGORY=___" instead of "ID=___".

Brian.

Brian-Bear · #4 (**permalink**) 09-14-2005, 04:42 AM

Hi
Coder: yes I would like PR on the dynamic pages of the directory if possible. I looked at rewrite software for IIS but it appeared very technical.

Brian: I searched all day yesterday for a solution and I also found that in the technical section of googles webmaster guidelines after i had posted here. Well spotted. Maybe this will be the answer

Is rewrite software a nightmare to set up on IIS
your thoughts?

**brian.mark** · #5 (**permalink**) 09-14-2005, 09:38 AM

My experience with IIS is limited to classroom and one server that we host a single app on for communicating with our inventory management system from our website. I've never tried doing rewrites on IIS, nor have I done much of anything in IIS. adamwebdesign on this forum comes to mind for IIS related issues. There are some other good ones as well.

This is probably a topic best asked in the Web Programming Discussion Forum.

Brian.

emils · #6 (**permalink**) 09-16-2005, 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian-Bear

Hi
Coder: yes I would like PR on the dynamic pages of the directory if possible. I looked at rewrite software for IIS but it appeared very technical.

Brian: I searched all day yesterday for a solution and I also found that in the technical section of googles webmaster guidelines after i had posted here. Well spotted. Maybe this will be the answer

Is rewrite software a nightmare to set up on IIS
your thoughts?

We use a lot of rewrite on IIS and it is not a nightmare, on the contrary its easy to setup but you need to get the software for this. For us, the software provided by isapirewrite.com was the right choice.

You may need to get some skills with regular expressions though. That may be a bit difficult... but there's no rewrite without that