Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
To give some history.
Pre January 2006, our site was dynamic looking with session ids and complicated urls. Our home page had a PR of 6, and all internal pages had a PR of 0. This was expected, as our site was a spider trap. Our internal pages did get crawled in August 2005 and I have thousands of duplicate pages with complex urls and session Ids.
In January of 2006 I hunkered down and learmed mod_rewrite and got my site totally static looking.
Within a week of the changes, my second level pages (about 30) got listed, and during the (FEB or March Toolbar PR update, my second tier pages got a PR of 3, and my home page maintained a PR of 6.
For seven long months I have been waiting for my third level pages to get listed, with no luck.
Then on July 15, during the next Toolbar PR update, my home page retained a PR of 6, however all my internal pages now have a PR of 0.
Strange. It appears my pages fail to pass PR to my internal pages. I have 1 home page, 40 second level pages and 600 third level pages. Worst case scenario, my PR should be 5,4,2 or 5,3,2 or something simliar not 6,0,0 between first, second and third level.
I have checked my http headers, and all pages are passing back the proper headers.
The only thing I may be doing that might effect google as as follows:
I wanted to keep my supplemental pages valid, as I was still getting a small amount traffic from then. I have a mod_rewrite condition that still treats the supplemental pages as valid, and I then process then internally via my scripts.
I can't see this being a problem, as you would think that google would use new crawl data over a cache of old supplemental results when doing a crawl. Especially after seven months.
I also use site maps with google, listing all my static links.
Should I force 404's on the old supplemental results?
Could this be the problem?
Anybody else seeing this behaviour?
Some of our sites I'm seeing PR not passed to pages that were cached ages ago. It may only go down 1 level, when in total we have 3-4 levels [ more in some circumstances ]. Some URL's have not been changed here
On other sites [ mostly with deep links ] I'm seeing the caching and PR work through to the lowest level. Even if the URL's have been changed. [ e.g. underscore to hyphens ]. Many of the IBL's have been around for years, although we're always adding some.
We use Sitemaps, have all pages pointing back to "/" [ not index.htm or default.htm ]
There are some good guidelines on this thread [webmasterworld.com...] which may go part of the way to answering factors that influence your site, which eventuate in PR working properly.
Hopefully someone could help futher with some better insight.
[edited by: Whitey at 12:11 am (utc) on July 21, 2006]
