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I have a very nice PR6 link going into my site - it is a very small niche, so there are very few possible link partners out there.
This PR6 link was probably the only reason my site was ranked PR5 right from launch - so it is pretty valuable to me at the moment.
Trouble is, my rank has just dropped from 5 to 3 - and hunting around for an explanation, I noticed that this PR6 link has my URL without the 'www'.
I'm pretty certain the link included the www before and now he has removed it - causing my rank to drop to 3 - my site URL without the www now ranks at 5!
Question is, what's the best approach here?
Do I email him, politely asking to put the www back in my linked URL - he may have removed it for a completely innocent reason and be happy to oblige.
Or can you set up domain forwarding to resolve this problem - by forwarding mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com?
Would this ensure that all page rank is concentrated on the full 'www included' URL, regardless of how people link to you?
Does domain forwarding cause any problems with search engines that I should be aware of?
Thanks
[edited by: martinibuster at 4:22 pm (utc) on Sep. 5, 2004]
[edit reason] edit for spelling. [/edit]
Though, I don't see any reason why you couldn't just contact the linker and have it changed. Any reason why he/she wouldn't oblige?
Hopefully he will oblige - I sent the email about a week ago, but I'm still waiting for a reply.
I don't want to pester him though, the link is too valuable to risk losing it - it is my top provider of traffic as well as providing page rank benefits.
I don't really want to get into the domain forwarding thing unless I really have to.
