If I reorganize my site, what will happen to my PageRank?

FamilyCar · 03-02-2006, 09:23 PM

I have a decent page rank on my web site www.familycar.com[/url]. I am in the process of doing a major redesign and would like to reorganize a number of pages into folders. The problem is that many of these pages have a good page rank because there are many links pointing to them from other sites. Many of these pages are ranked #1 on Google search and I would like to keep it that way. Eg. do a Google search for'wheel alignment' and my page is ranked #1.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to approach this type of reorganization while minimizing the risk of lowering my ranking?

Thanks for any help you can give.

FamilyCar · 03-08-2006, 06:10 AM

Should I be posting this question on a different forum in this community?

No one seems to be responding in this one.

kevgibbo · 03-08-2006, 07:26 AM

I would advise trying to keep the same filenames wherever possible. If this needs to be changed use a 301 redirect from the old page to the new page so that the search engines know this page has been permanently moved.

FamilyCar · 03-10-2006, 09:37 AM

Thanks for the info. It helped me a lot. Problem is that I am using IIS. The research I have done tells me to use IIS Redirect instead of a 301 redirect. Will this give me the same result so I will not lose my ranking?

Also, is it a good idea to use an IIS redirect so that anyone who types in http://familycar.com will be redirected to http://www.familycar.com? Will this make a differense in google ranking or does Google filter for that so it doesn't matter?

physik3r · 03-12-2006, 05:47 PM

IIS is a pain in the butt compared to Apache when it comes to this,but you can still do it. Just use PHP to write your 301 redirects. A few months ago on http://allmags4free.com I changed my primary subdomain from /magazines/ to /free-magazines/ for optimisation purposes. As a result, all the child pages went from PR 3 to PR0 so I have both directories pointing to the same location..the effect being that if someone finds an old link to /magazines/ it will still point to the right place and any time they click a link they will be sent to /free-magazines/ by the next PR update I should have my PR back up to where it should be

03-02-2006, 09:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
FamilyCar Noogle Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	If I reorganize my site, what will happen to my PageRank? I have a decent page rank on my web site www.familycar.com[/url]. I am in the process of doing a major redesign and would like to reorganize a number of pages into folders. The problem is that many of these pages have a good page rank because there are many links pointing to them from other sites. Many of these pages are ranked #1 on Google search and I would like to keep it that way. Eg. do a Google search for'wheel alignment' and my page is ranked #1. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to approach this type of reorganization while minimizing the risk of lowering my ranking? Thanks for any help you can give.

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03-08-2006, 06:10 AM	#2 (permalink)
FamilyCar Noogle Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Should I be posting this question on a different forum in this community? No one seems to be responding in this one.

03-08-2006, 07:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
kevgibbo Senior Googler Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 199 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	I would advise trying to keep the same filenames wherever possible. If this needs to be changed use a 301 redirect from the old page to the new page so that the search engines know this page has been permanently moved.

03-10-2006, 09:37 AM	#4 (permalink)
FamilyCar Noogle Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Thanks for the info. It helped me a lot. Problem is that I am using IIS. The research I have done tells me to use IIS Redirect instead of a 301 redirect. Will this give me the same result so I will not lose my ranking? Also, is it a good idea to use an IIS redirect so that anyone who types in http://familycar.com will be redirected to http://www.familycar.com? Will this make a differense in google ranking or does Google filter for that so it doesn't matter?

03-12-2006, 05:47 PM	#5 (permalink)
physik3r Googler Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 74 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	IIS is a pain in the butt compared to Apache when it comes to this,but you can still do it. Just use PHP to write your 301 redirects. A few months ago on http://allmags4free.com I changed my primary subdomain from /magazines/ to /free-magazines/ for optimisation purposes. As a result, all the child pages went from PR 3 to PR0 so I have both directories pointing to the same location..the effect being that if someone finds an old link to /magazines/ it will still point to the right place and any time they click a link they will be sent to /free-magazines/ by the next PR update I should have my PR back up to where it should be

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