PR question

chris3471 said: "I know PR isn't as important as people think but I'm trying to get some link exchanges and I don't want people thinking my site is only a pr2. Anyway here's the question. The url [url]http://www.searchmebaby.com/[/url] gets a PR3 but [url]http://www.searchmebaby.com/index.php[/url] gets a PR2 The thing is though is that they're the same page. Is there a way I can use .htaccess to fix this? Here's what I have for a 301 [code] RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^searchmebaby\.com [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http://www.searchmebaby.com/$1 [R=301,L] [/code]"

Developer said: "This will remove index.php and the query string from all folders, including the root folder: [CODE]RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ .*/index\.php(\?.*){0,1}\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://www.searchmebaby.com/$1? [R=301,L][/CODE] If you don't want to removethe query string then this should work: [CODE]RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ .*/index\.php(\?.*){0,1}\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://www.searchmebaby.com/$1 [R=301,L][/CODE] There are other sources of duplicate content, like multiple slashes and query strings on pages. I would need to know more about the website structure to sort them out."

chris3471 said: "Great it worked, thanks. I've been trying to figure that out for hours.:D Now I have one more question. My forum used to be in a directory called forum but now it's in the root directory and I have about 400 pages indexed that are now dead links. So how do I use .htaccess to redirect to the root/somepage.php basically if someone is looking for mysite/forum/somepage.php I want it to redirect to mysite/somepage.php where somepage.php is any page they may be looking for. *[COLOR="Red"]Edit[/COLOR]* Ok I figured it out. It was too easy that's why I couldn't figure it out. Did it like this: [code] Redirect /forum http://searchmebaby.com [/code]"

chris3471 said: "Uh oh, small problem, the admin link won't work. admin/index.php?sid=some-numbers-here *[COLOR="Red"]Edit[/COLOR]* Ok I figured that out too. created an .htaccess file in the admin directory and put this in it. Works now. [code] RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /admin/ RewriteRule ^/*(.+/)?([^.]*[^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/admin/$1$2/ [L,R=301] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.searchmebaby\.com Rewriterule (.*) http://www.searchmebaby.com/admin/$1 [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^home/smb1/public_html/admin /admin/ [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /admin/index.php [L] [/code]"

tracepeople said: "if they both resolve to the same page then why do thye have different pr? I'd understand it if [url]www.yourdomain.com[/url] was redirected to [url]www.freehosting.com/yourdomain[/url] as the urls would be very different."

chris3471 said: "I was wondering that myself, maybe the one witheout the index.php is sitewide PR? Well anyway though thanks to Developer I'm able to keep the pR3 instead of the PR2, I spent 3 hours trying to figure out how to do that. I've also set up redirects for when pages or directories aren't found, they all go straight to the forum."

edwin said: "they're two seperate pages. 301 redirect the one to the other"

amardeep said: "Hi, How can we increase google page rank and can get exchange links with webdesigning."

Heather said: "I'd recommend adding new content and building links."

Darren said: "Look for "web design" + "link exchange" in Google."

edwin said: "yeah, that's always a classic"

JNKProducts said: "I suppose if we new the formula we'd be rich. I can tell you one thing, it makes very little sense. We have a site thats been up since 2003 with over 5,000 incomming links --depending on who you ask-- and another with 8 that was just launched this year. They both have a PR4"