Jax

My Ableize site has just had a PR update from 3 to 4 and most of the sub categories have also gained a good healthy PR most from 0 to 3 which is great and pleasing considering all the work I have put in getting links etc.

However, 4 top level cats and subcats have NO PR and I just realised the reason why.

I recently had a shuffle round and changed a few cats for example one cat called Access and Travel at http://www.ableize.com/access-and-travel/ was previously called Access and Accommodation. I split the cat up to create two cats, because of this these cats were looked at by the likes of Google as new and therefore had no history or links back.

So my advice when creating a directory especially a niche directory is spend a great deal of time on your category creating so you can avoid change at a later date.

Any changes to top level cats will have an overall effect on not only the cats changed but also the entire site due to the internal link structure changing and of course the loss of inbound links that point anywhere but your home page.

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eprosumer

fantastic stuff..

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If you ever come into the circumstance where you need to rename a page, you should consider using permanent 301 redirects. If you are running Apache Server then you can use the .htaccess file for that.

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datpcstore

I just posted something to the same except my PR dropped from 4 to 2 yesterday, because i did change the file structure of my site and did not think ahead on this, but another posting suggested using the .htaccess file to fix this my site has had big changes over the last 3 months with 2 domains names involved. I have the .htaccess file on one of my sites, but how do I control the old product link addresses?

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Myeglence

that is a very excellent idea in addition sites not found can be redirected to the main page so users won't get upset believe me they come back again