Saving my pagerank

Julie · 02-17-2006, 10:36 AM

Oasis-News.com is the site I will be referencing.

I set the site up with Drupal, and had the files for the site in a sub-directory at oasis-news.com/drupal. I had a index.html file in the root directory that redirected to oasis-news.com/drupal folder. I had it that way because I had finally gotten a pagerank, and when I switched to drupal, I didn't want to lose it...so I kept an index.html page and made it a redirect. Blah blah blah. The redirect annoyed me, and probably others. So today I moved all the files into the root directory. So now when you type in oasis-news.com it takes you right to the site without the redirect.

Now I am wondering if there is any way to prevent myself from loosing the pagerank, or will it just go bye bye anyways? Is there anything I can do? If so, can you explain in detail?

Julie · 02-17-2006, 10:53 AM

anyone?

John Scott · 02-17-2006, 11:02 AM

You are saying you changed the file and folder names?

Julie · 02-17-2006, 11:06 AM

I deleted the redirect, the index.html file. The drupal directory still exists, but all the files for the site are now in the main site directory.

The redirect was driving me nuts. If I can't save the PR, no big deal. It'll come back. But man, I sure did drop of the face of the earth when I just did a search for "oasis news" on Google.

John Scott · 02-17-2006, 11:15 AM

Don't pay no mind to PR. It's not that be of a deal. Just do what you gotta do.

Julie · 02-17-2006, 11:19 AM

I don't really care about it. All I care about is getting my spot back on the 1st page results!

My competition sucks and they are going down! lol

John Scott · 02-17-2006, 11:22 AM

Have you been building linkage at all?

Julie · 02-17-2006, 11:59 AM

On that site... no not really.......

I can't be arsed to mess with those "web ring" things, which are apparently popular with Oasis sites. That's so 1990's. And they all sign up for those silly "top 100 oasis sites" things. I tried getting linked on the official Oasis site...but their admins are dumb and never do updates anymore, even though they ask u to send them your link so they can link to it. I tried submitting it to DMOZ, but it has been added yet

That was like 2 months ago I submitted it.

I don't know what to do with getting links on this one... frankly it wasn't ever really a concern because it's a site that a lot of Oasis fans know about already...although I would like to take over that coveted #1 position eventually, so I'll probably have to get links soon.... blah.

John Scott · 02-17-2006, 12:21 PM

Start a blog on there and get friends to link to it?

Julie · 02-17-2006, 12:25 PM

I set up a blog on there yesterday actually...don't know what to blog about though. Hmm....

John Scott · 02-17-2006, 12:30 PM

Blog about the many virtues of John Scott.

Julie · 02-17-2006, 12:34 PM

I'm sure the Oasis fans would appreciate that!

Would that get me the $10,000? LOL

John Scott · 02-17-2006, 12:39 PM

It might

Julie · 02-17-2006, 12:41 PM

"Might" isn't a good enough answer.

Dustin07 · 02-17-2006, 02:04 PM

seems to me like the only true benifit (and this is a benifit, IMO) to PR, is that when linking from a high PR site you know that you're in with the cool kids. More foot traffic hopefully, and probably spidered more often as well.

noob_0001 · 02-17-2006, 02:55 PM

Why didn't you create a static page at your domain and have links pointing to the Drupal directory? A splash page for your site. If it was php, you could have put some of your blog and other content on the page.

I guess that you could have just framed the drupal page in your index page and made the links on the front page "target=top"

I would have give the subdirectory a keyword name instead of drupal.

You probably should have asked John first, he seem to know a lot. That seem like a lot of work moving a whole complex application like that.

Just a thought or two.

Julie · 02-17-2006, 03:03 PM

I hate splash pages. I want the content to be accessible right off the top, and its important that the news is on the front.

It really wasn't that hard moving it...just a matter of checking off the directories & files under it and hitting the "move" button and chosing where I wanted it to go. Then I just had to update the configuration file. It runs off a mySQL database which is in the same place...so its not a major hassle moving it at all.

noob_0001 · 02-17-2006, 10:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dustin07

seems to me like the only true benifit (and this is a benifit, IMO) to PR, is that when linking from a high PR site you know that you're in with the cool kids. More foot traffic hopefully, and probably spidered more often as well.

Not so! Some of those directory scripts can sort results by Google PR. It the user can not choose another way, the site with the highest PR comes first. Also, I have seen a few site that will only allow a site with a specific PR value in. Forget which, but others can tell you.

@ Julie, How do you like Drupal? Is it hard to install?