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alex-party · 04-21-2007, 02:41 PM

Hello,

I'm not sure, but as far as I know - R=301 redirects - that's the way to go. I've done this once for a big customer. They had completely redesigned and changed their site structure for like 500 urls, all changed with 301 redirects. But because of lack of time, I haven't traced what impact it had on their rankings of new/old pages, after all it wasn't my job. But if you look at their web site now, it seems like they have good PR on their new urls: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com

This makes me think, that Google applies PR to all new Urls as well.
I assume, Google takes home page PR=6, and redistributes all sub-level urls PR5 or 4 roughly. If you find answer to your problem yourself, please let us know, as many people here asking same question....

Hint: try changing 2-3% urls and see what happens.

Thanks,
Alex

04-21-2007, 02:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
alex-party Elite Googler Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,085 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Hello, I'm not sure, but as far as I know - R=301 redirects - that's the way to go. I've done this once for a big customer. They had completely redesigned and changed their site structure for like 500 urls, all changed with 301 redirects. But because of lack of time, I haven't traced what impact it had on their rankings of new/old pages, after all it wasn't my job. But if you look at their web site now, it seems like they have good PR on their new urls: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com This makes me think, that Google applies PR to all new Urls as well. I assume, Google takes home page PR=6, and redistributes all sub-level urls PR5 or 4 roughly. If you find answer to your problem yourself, please let us know, as many people here asking same question.... Hint: try changing 2-3% urls and see what happens. Thanks, Alex