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A question about Pagerank and 301 Redirects

by internetmarketer99
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I recently bought a site that has two "home" pages: index.html and index-2.html.

Index.html is the default home page, but in the navigation menu, they put a "Home" button that goes to index-2.html.

Both pages are otherwise identical.

Both pages have a Pagerank 4.

If I do a 301 Redirect from index-2.html to index.html, will I essentially be losing a PR4 page?

Is it possible to 'funnel' the PR of index-2.html to index.html in order to further 'boost' index.html?

Any help is appreciated!

Mark
#301 #pagerank #question #redirects
  • Profile picture of the author Tim Dixon
    Originally Posted by internetmarketer99 View Post

    I recently bought a site that has two "home" pages: index.html and index-2.html.

    Index.html is the default home page, but in the navigation menu, they put a "Home" button that goes to index-2.html.

    Both pages are otherwise identical.

    Both pages have a Pagerank 4.

    If I do a 301 Redirect from index-2.html to index.html, will I essentially be losing a PR4 page?

    Is it possible to 'funnel' the PR of index-2.html to index.html in order to further 'boost' index.html?

    Any help is appreciated!

    Mark
    As I understand it, if you do the 301 redirect then yes you would effectively loose a PR4 page.

    I would think a bit of careful funnelling of index-2.html to index.html *should* give it a boost, how much though is anybodies guess.

    Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author ltdraper
    Actually, a 301 will flow the juice to the new page. You're telling the search engine that the page has moved.

    It's a standard "trick" to 301 pages that have PR and are no longer useful back to your top level page to flow the juice to something useful.
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    • Profile picture of the author blase40
      From the results I have seen, and from what others have documented as well, page rank will flow through a 301 redirect.
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  • Profile picture of the author internetmarketer99
    Tim, that's what I was concerned about, but my research seems to suggest that a 301 Redirect will let me keep the pagerank. I wasn't certain enough to risk losing a PR4 page, though...

    Thanks ltdraper, blase40!

    Mark
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  • Profile picture of the author Ron Killian
    Why not just use the second index page?
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  • Profile picture of the author Frank Bruno
    If the content is exactly the same on both index pages I wouldn't use the second index page unless you have no follow links.

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    • Profile picture of the author radhika
      When BOTH PAGES are PR4, what will you lose if you delete index-2.html. Still you have your index.html that is PR4.

      301 redirect is useful for directing traffic that is coming to index-2.html to index.html. As far as I know, the PR will not be transfered to redirected page.

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