PR and domain questions--Google Links?

ConsumerChoiceReview · 01-27-2006, 06:03 AM

New to site.....but very interested in your opinion!!!!

I have developed this site http://www.consumerchoicereview.com to eventually sell advertising on. I have not gotten a PR yet (only been up since Mid Oct 2005).

I have a pretty good Alexa rating 161,000. It has steadily gone down since the start every 2 weeks.

I have many links listed with Yahoo and MSN, but only a few with Google.

My real question is why do I get different results when I use http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/ to analyze my site using
1. "www.consumerchoicereview.com"
2. "consumerchoicereview.com"

I is a really big difference in Yahoo/MSN (much higher with "consumerchoicereview.com") but not Google Links

I get 60 Google links with "www.consumerchoicereview.com" but low count in MSN/Yahoo.

Most of links come from articles submited to various e-zines.

Questions:
1. Is there a way to re-direct (not sure if this is the right word) to domain "www.consumerchoicereview.com"
2. Will the current state affect my Google PR
3. Using the iWebtool for PR Prediction I get 5 with the "www." and 0 without it.

Can anyone shed light on this issue? I am confussed.

Gene

http://www.consumerchoicereview.com

gamecock · 01-30-2006, 07:12 AM

For best results redirect everything to the www using your .htaccess file. This will point all of the pagerank to the www address.

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

A good explaination of why this issue come up:

From: http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5644

Quote:

Ten or twelve years ago, the World Wide Web was just one small part of the Internet, and our fastest PC's were based on the brain-dead 386 chip. They weren't very fast and couldn't handle much of a load, so we often had to put the different parts of our Internet on separate machines. We'd put Apache on one computer, for example, and our mail server on another, and probably an FTP server on yet another. Each of the computers would respond to a different IP address, but still answer to the same domain name. We differentiated the computers with what we called, back then, a "machine name," and thus ended up with http://www.domain.com, mail.domain.com, and ftp.domain.com. (Anyone old enough to remember gopher.domain.com?)

Today's computers, of course, are much more powerful and we can put all of the different "parts" of our Internet services on the same box. Indeed, we often cram several hundred domains, each with its own set of parts, onto the same server. A few years ago, I argued (rather vehemently) that www was antiquated and should be ignored. Trouble is, a lot of big directories (Yahoo comes to mind) automatically list http://www.domain.com even if you submit a simpler domain.com, and we have a few billion people in the populace who habitually type www before any domain name. When I got tired of beating my head against that particular wall, I started recommending that everyone promote http://www.domain.com and get rid of domain.com. If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em.

The history, at least for me, is interesting, but the important thing to remember is that http://www.domain.com -- just like sub.domain.com -- is considered an entirely different entity than domain.com. A surfer or spider going to any of the three will receive the same 200 OK response code for a page request and won't readily be able to differentiate the domains.

hwfranz2001 · 02-01-2006, 07:54 PM

can I do thi also without .htaccess-file?

01-27-2006, 06:03 AM	#1
ConsumerChoiceReview Newcomer Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2	PR and domain questions--Google Links? New to site.....but very interested in your opinion!!!! I have developed this site http://www.consumerchoicereview.com to eventually sell advertising on. I have not gotten a PR yet (only been up since Mid Oct 2005). I have a pretty good Alexa rating 161,000. It has steadily gone down since the start every 2 weeks. I have many links listed with Yahoo and MSN, but only a few with Google. My real question is why do I get different results when I use http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/ to analyze my site using 1. "www.consumerchoicereview.com" 2. "consumerchoicereview.com" I is a really big difference in Yahoo/MSN (much higher with "consumerchoicereview.com") but not Google Links I get 60 Google links with "www.consumerchoicereview.com" but low count in MSN/Yahoo. Most of links come from articles submited to various e-zines. Questions: 1. Is there a way to re-direct (not sure if this is the right word) to domain "www.consumerchoicereview.com" 2. Will the current state affect my Google PR 3. Using the iWebtool for PR Prediction I get 5 with the "www." and 0 without it. Can anyone shed light on this issue? I am confussed. Gene http://www.consumerchoicereview.com

02-01-2006, 07:54 PM	#3
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