Google and .aspx files

Will it hurt rankings?

[jjdesigns4u]

I am trying to help this site that sells treadmills. The home page is at PR4. Non of the other pages have any PR it is just greyed out. They are getting killed by the competition. Since there site does not have a good PR do you think this file structures is preventing the other pages of the site to get hit by the spider.

URL/pages/proform/995sel.aspx

[ciml]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], jjdesigns4u.

Are the pages quite new? It may be that Google didn't manage to credit them with their links in time for the last Google update. If so, then they may appear at the next update [webmasterworld.com] with some PageRank?

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I wouldn't worry about the .aspx URL. Google need straight links (A href="whatever" not Javascript) but the URL extension doesn't matter.

[edited by: ciml at 7:21 pm (utc) on Oct. 21, 2002]

[jjdesigns4u]

the site has been up for like 2 years....

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what about the depth of the pages they are like 4 levels down

Oh ya...
The site uses drop down menues to take you to the different pages. I that what you mean about the javascript? Can Google even see the other pages?

:>

[Slade]

If you want a page to have good PR, it must have a good PR link to it. The same rule applies to subpages of a site. The farther the link is away from the home page(by linkcount, not subdir count) the less PR it will have.

Translation:
Pages you want to rank high should be really easy for googlebot to find. The less the number of clicks from homepage to $$ page, the better.

[Slade]

"javascript dropdowns" Probably not.

Somewhere on the index page, you should link to maybe two additional pages.

1) A money page, that points to the product pages you want to emphasize.

2) A site map, that will show googlebot around your site.

Do this:
go to google and type in: site:www.thedomain.tld keyword
(preferably a keyword that is kind of generic and on a lot of your pages)

This will give you an indication of the pages google found on your site. If you get only the homepage(or the homepage plus only pages that some other site links to you with), then googlebot probably didn't find any more pages.

[ciml]

As Slade points out, it's the number of clicks that matter, not the number of '/' characters in the URL (although the Toolbar usually uses those to guess PR for pages not in Google).

Javascript drop-downs can be followed if the full URI is used in the script (eg. http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever ).

[jjdesigns4u]

This site has been up for 1.5 years. When I visit the internal pages the PR is grayed out?

[ciml]

> When I visit the internal pages the PR is grayed out?

Does this seem strange to anyone else?

A PR4 home page on a site that's been in Google for a long time should have a Toolbar guess, rather than grey Toolbar.

[creative craig]

I have had a site in google for about 4 months now, now and from the last update the site description has been my content meta tag. I have also had the alt - tags show up in other pages other than the index page!

Craig

[jjdesigns4u]

I am adding the site map and I have changed the javascript drop down menu navigation to include the entire URL

Maybe on this next Google update it will spend more time on the internal pages....

[jjdesigns4u]

When I pull up this site with the page extension I get a grayed out PR

When I pull it up without the extension I get a 4

[joeuz]

Sorry to bring back this old topic, but I was doing a search on this very issue and couldn't find it resolved anywhere. I am also having trouble with the .aspx file extention (generated by .NET). On one of my sites, the main page has PR6, all .htm pages are ranked, and none of the .aspx pages are ranked. The PR bar in the Google toolbar is grey. The website is almost a year old, so it is not a "new website" issue.

Now the curious thing is that the .aspx pages are indexed in Google (I find them in a search), and also some of them appear as backlinks to others, so they must rank PR4 or better, right?

Should I worry about the lack of rank in the toolbar, or just forget about it?

Thanks

[jjdesigns4u]

Welcome!

This site that I started this post about has been up for awhile now and the .aspx pages are ranked in the search engines but just don't 'show' a PR.

I don't lose any sleep over it. I checed the entry page report in my logs and traffic is coming in from those pages.

I know some people have email Google to see if they are going to fix the toolbar.....

:)