Help! How do I get a PR with an Ensim CP and an admin Folder

[bgray]

I've been online for about 4 months with my vbulletin forum. I have over 3 gigs of bandwidth per day and lots of incoming links but no PR.

I have an Ensim CP and since vbulletin has an admin folder, which you can't put in the main directory of Ensim, I put my whole site in a subdirectory, "forum".

I've had a php redirect in the main directory and just changed over to an html header redirect a couple of weeks ago. I might not have given the html redirect enough time but I don't want to miss the boat again.

Will the html redirect keep me from getting a PR also?
Without changing a lot of code to rename my admin folder how should I go about this situation to get a PR?

Thanks,

BGray

[wruk999]

Hi bgray,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld! [webmasterworld.com].

First off, just run a quick search in Google for

allinurl: www.yourdomain.com

and look through the list. If you see items from your sub-directory /forum/ then you know that Google is indexing it.

If it's just a matter of no PR, but good indexing then this is more a google pagerank question - and is something I'm not an expert on.

Check this thread out UBB and Google [webmasterworld.com] and have a look at post 8 by Yidaki.

..Since i saw another thread of one fellow member who's got trouble to bring his VBulletin forums into google, i'd suggest that you visit your software support forums...

But by running the above search in google, you will know whether its an indexing problem or a PR problem ;)

HTH, wruk999

[bgray]

Thanks for the welcome wruk999,

Google is indexing my site quite well, it's mainly just a PR issue.

I guess my real question is: Will Google Rank pages that have forwards via PHP redirect, html redirect, or htaccess redirects?

Thanks again,

BGray

[wruk999]

Personally I would use htaccess redirects..and 302 Moved I believe.

I have heard people say the a meta-refresh (html) can cause harm to listings, but htaccess seems to be the most favourable method ;)

wruk999