Pagerank after a .com to .co.uk transition

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Pagerank after a .com to .co.uk transition

Pagerank is a third of what it was/should be

Jack_Hughes

1:45 pm on Dec 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

Today is the 3 month anniversary of our domain.com to domain.co.uk transition. We are still well down on our google traffic. We used to do around 15,000 referrals now we get around 2,500 referrals.

Anyway, that's not what I am asking about. Our home page has a PR of two at present. We used to be a PR 5 and I believe quite a strong PR 5 (as the pr 5 was spread throughout all of the primary areas of the site).

Most of the links have now been moved over too. Our 2 dmoz links are now pointing to the .co.uk domain likewise the yahoo directory link. I also did a trawl to ask our other linkers to change over and most did eventually.

Our inbounds have gone up since the domain move too, mostly links from forums (not link drops from me either).

Have I beeen caught up in some kind of link quaranteen. Plainly, some of my links are not counting toward my PR.

Any ideas?

Jack_Hughes

1:34 pm on Dec 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

Anyone?

soapystar

1:41 pm on Dec 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

you should have 301'd the .com to the .co.uk and left everything alone..now you have to wait for everything to catchup...whats happened to the .com?

Jack_Hughes

6:22 pm on Dec 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

the .com site is wholly 301ed to the .co.uk. the sites whose links updated are all high PR sites so google should be crawling them to death.

if all i have to do is wait then that's ok...i'm getting used to it.

treeline

7:44 pm on Dec 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

Perhaps there were many small links to your site that haven't switched, but add up. Or possibly a few large ones that were key to your ranking.

AnonyMouse

9:28 pm on Dec 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

Same thing happened to me when I changed the URL structure, even after using 301s to tell Google that things had changed! See [webmasterworld.com...]

Jack_Hughes

9:37 am on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

Perhaps there were many small links to your site that haven't switched, but add up. Or possibly a few large ones that were key to your ranking.

That may well be the case. All of the links are 301ed to the new site. PR & everything else is *supposed* to flow through the 301 to the destination page. Not anymore it would seem.