Transferring PR to a New Website Home Page

[sleepysentry]

http://dealfiesta.com just obtained PR 4 after the very recent PR update. I would like to release a new version of it, but that would mean changing the home page to http://www.dealfiesta.com/index.php, a page with no PR.

Is there any way I can make it so the new site is PR 4 without waiting for the next update?

 

[yeppers]

http://dealfiesta.com just obtained PR 4 after the very recent PR update. I would like to release a new version of it, but that would mean changing the home page to http://www.dealfiesta.com/index.php, a page with no PR.

Is there any way I can make it so the new site is PR 4 without waiting for the next update?

Yep ,

By doing nothing :D.

To google, (only when it comes to PR really) http://dealfiesta.com and http://www.dealfiesta.com/index.php are pretty much the same thing, whatever your default page is, you could say is the same PR as your domain basically.

You won't see a fall in PR if you change your website's home page at all.

Hope that clears it up for you,
Rhett.

 

[McDot]

It is the same thing, but at the same time it isn't. Take into consderation, it is a complete URL that gets a PR Value. Other subpages get other PR values, or in the worst of cases none at all.

In this case, if I understand you right:
If you call your Domain with domain.tld/ you have a PR4.
If you call your Domain with domain.tld/index.php you have a different PR (or none)

Make sure your index page is always called by domain.tld/ (without the index.php). The content of the index.php should come bei default.

Redo all internal links that point to /index.php in such a way that they point to domain.tld/. Then you can be sure that your "index" page is allways shown with PR4.

I hope that was not too confusing. :red:

 

[yeppers]

Hey Richard, thanks for explaining, as I didn't really know all that exactly. Would this improve your traffic at all with google, having say domain.com being PR4 and domain.com/index.html being PR4 also do you know?

Thanks! Rep added.

 

[McDot]

The PR itself is only one of the factors taken into consideration for your position in the Google search. To make it easier to understand, lets say the PR is a prearrangement of the indexing order, while showing search results. The final order is made up of a lot more factors, that together with PR determine how relevant your page might be to the searched phrase.

However, a good PR helps, and also looks good, when someone using i.e. the Google toolbar, sees your PR. It's also a little "Prestige".

Still, it is more important to have relevant content, and a search engine friendly site.