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[Help] My Pagerank dropped when I changed the landing page :(

by STRE
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Hello,

I had a website with Pagerank 4

but when I created a /fr to be the default landing page when someone type the domain

I lost the pagerank and the pagerank now is 0

Someone told me that 301 Redirection will make the new page inherit the rankings from the old page, is it true?? because I already did this but nothing happened.

If you have any idea how to help me with this I would really appreciate it.

Thank you
#changed #dropped #landing #page #pagerank
  • Profile picture of the author STRE
    No one can help me with this issue ??
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by STRE View Post

    Hello,

    I had a website with Pagerank 4

    but when I created a /fr to be the default landing page when someone type the domain

    I lost the pagerank and the pagerank now is 0

    Someone told me that 301 Redirection will make the new page inherit the rankings from the old page, is it true?? because I already did this but nothing happened.

    If you have any idea how to help me with this I would really appreciate it.

    Thank you

    Pages have PR, not sites.

    abc.com/fr is a different page than abc.com.

    The 301 redirect will push the links and authority to that /fr page, but it is not instant. Google will need to crawl it once or twice. Also, it is not a 100% carryover. Most people have done experiments on this have found that anywhere from 80-90% of the linkjuice carries over through a 301 redirect.
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  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    Also keep in mind that PR is calculated each 3 months or so.

    Something you do now that appears to have changed your PR could actually be due to something you did last month.
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