Response.Redirect affect on PRs

PR's getting passed along OK?

[weebie]

I have 2 URLS pointing at my IP (iis on Win200). In my root default.asp page, I use request header info to determine which URL the user wants & then use response.redirect to forward to the next level directory. Next level pages seem to be at PR0.

Just started with reciprocal links to my specific shopping categories (these in turn point to product pages), but currently am at PR0 for these next tiered directories and their individual products, though the products are coming up reasonably well in Goo/Ya searches considering.

Also added a root level products sitemap.htm with links to each buried product.

Must wait for next indexing to see what PR I glean for category & product pages - after above changes.

Q? Since default.asp page had no hrefs - only response.redirect to my shopping site page - was I losing all my PR associated with the primary domain URL?

Have added hrefs at top of default.asp. Redirect script code still transfers into next level default shopping page - BUT because the redirect is server side - Not sure if the SE's will see/use these href links at all.

[topr8]

i think i know what you mean,

i have some sites (completely different) hosted on one ip address and i use server.transfer from the index page to a folder depending on the domain requested.

... seems to work fine for me, why are you using the response.redirect instead of transfer?

[weebie]

Was only method I was aware of at time - old code.

My only concern is passing along of any PR associated with the top level URL. I do have backlinks pointed at top level before I realized what a problem it could be in the future.

[topr8]

well i can tell you first hand that server.transfer would pass on the pr as you put it, i assume that response.redirect would but haven't done it so can't say for sure.