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Am I Throwing PR Out Of The Window?

by Bondtana
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I have a video section on my website, about 6 or 7 of those video pages gained page rank of pr1 or 2...

Recently I created a brand new video section of my site and I am moving those videos to different pages/urls...

If I do a permanent redirect to the new url's of the videos, is that wasting their previous url's PR?

Or should I just leave the pages up as is and also include them in my new video section? Maybe inlinking to the new video section?

Any help would be greatly appreciated :confused:
#throwing #window
  • Profile picture of the author Dietriffic
    I'm not expert, but I think a 301 redirect should pass weight to the new pages.

    I've read this, but I've never tested it.

    For what it's worth, it wouldn't be the PR I'd be worrying about, but where the pages rank in the search engines. If they rank well, I'd be afraid to mess with them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marc Meole
    Honestly...pr holds not real value...don't stress about it and just make sure those pages are getting solid, relevant traffic...pr is just google hype...
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Grant
      Originally Posted by Marc Meole View Post

      Honestly...pr holds not real value...don't stress about it and just make sure those pages are getting solid, relevant traffic...pr is just google hype...
      PR holds no real value?

      Lol.
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    • Profile picture of the author Peter Gregory
      Originally Posted by Marc Meole View Post

      Honestly...pr holds not real value...don't stress about it and just make sure those pages are getting solid, relevant traffic...pr is just google hype...
      Tell that to the guys who sell links or flip sites. Those guys I'm sure would beg to differ seeing as how the higher the PR they have the higher the asking price for what their selling.

      Now in terms of real SEO value I agree it is fairly low. It does have some influence in ranking but agreed it is very low. The only other thing that it may have some value for is the ability to get your pages crawled on a deeper level. Basically meaning the more PR juice flowing through to internal pages the deeper the spider is likely to travel.
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  • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
    Setup a 301 redirect in your htaaccess file - that will tell the search engines that the pages have permanently moved to the new location
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter Gregory
    A 301 redirect would would allow for some of the PR to bleed through, but there will be some PR loss. It is not necessarily a bad idea to go that route and if it works better for the overall architecture of your site that is probably the best move you can make.

    If you wanted it to remain completely intact you would need to keep them where they are and figure out a way to bring attention to your new video section. If it doesn't make it to cumbersome to navigate you might consider putting a link on those current places to the new location like 'For more videos on this subject click here' or something along those lines and bring them to the new directory of videos.
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  • Profile picture of the author AdZaz
    Why not simply do both? Keep the pages that are already ranking at the same location and link to the new one on them, then simply include the same content + the new content in the new page and remove the old one from you menu system?
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  • Profile picture of the author Fraggler
    PR is a representation of trust and authority. It is the basis for modern search engines (they name it differently).

    A page optimized for a term with high pr will outrank a site with the same optimisation but lower pr.

    Backlinks are the source of pr. Are backlinks worthless?

    A search engine in basic terms sorts a group of results by relevancy and then reorders after factoring in authority and trust (PR for google).

    To the OP, your new pages won't automatically get the pr because of the videos. As a couple mentioned you can do a redirect to regain most of it.
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