mod_rewrite - page rank

paulgodard · Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

Hi
I need help to understand why & how... may-be someone can help here?

I use mod_rewrite to do the following

domain -> www.domain
domain/page.php?param1=1&param2=2... -> domain/param1-1-param2-2.htm

and I also have a redirect in my index.php file at the root level
domain?xxx -> domain/Alpha/Page.php?xxx

all the links in the site are using 'domain/param1-1-param2-2.htm' url

I have a Page rank of 4 for gondwanastudio.com, but n/a or 0 for any of the internal pages. Why?

I am also concerned by the fact that 2 url go to the same home page
gondwanastudio.com/Alpha/Page.php & gondwanastudio.com/Content_1000000000_gondwana+studio.htm

Am I doing something wrong?

Can someone help?

nims · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:27 am Post subject: Re: mod_rewrite - page rank

Hi,

First thing to remember is you should not have duplicate content pages. You can be penalized by search engines.

Secondly, I just cheked -http://www.gondwanastudio.com/Content_1000000000_gondwana+studio.htm
your home page ( one of the home pages ) and it has not been ranked yet.

Tell us something more about your website history. Did you buy this domain recently ?
Did you get it redesigned recently ?

paulgodard · Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

This is my site and I redesigned it 2 months ago. The main reason was getting rid of the frames and convert all dynamic url to static ones using mod_rewrite.

I know about the duplicate content and this is why I am concerned...

You can also check pulseafrica.com that I revamp the same way about 5-6 monts ago. There some of the pages are ranked.

How long does it take to rank a page?

dcz · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:18 am Post subject: Re: mod_rewrite - page rank

Well, it depends, you have to at least wait until the next Google dance to see new pages ranked.

One is currently going on right now, so new pages created few weeks ago most likely won't be ranked this time, but probably will upon the next Google dance.

Your number one priority now seems to take care about duplicates. If you web site was not decently indexed before you turned to mod rewrite, you can just disallow the "natural" URLs with your robots.txt :

paulgodard · Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

Hi

This is getting a bit too far for me...

First of all, it is the first time I heard about the Google dance (soory for my ignorance). How can I know when these dances take place and how often?

Regarding duplicates, I don't understand. Can you please explain better?

dcz · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject: Re: mod_rewrite - page rank

"Google dance" comes from back when the Google bot was updating the web sites cache during massive crawling sessions. Now indexing is pretty continuous, as well as the ranking in search results, but Google is still massively

A Google dance is when Google updates the web sites PageRank and Backlinks. It occurs every 3 or 4 month. Between two Google dance, the number of backlinks returned by the link:www.example.com search query stays the same. Same for PageRank, that's why new pages and do not get ranked at first.

But this does not means that Google results won't list new pages and new sites, indexing and search results ranking has become pretty continuous.

About duplicates, if two URLs can be used to visit the exact same page, then these two URLs are duplicates. They confuse bots who at least loose time crawling the same content and then can penalize the page because SE then have two results to show for the same page (thus less weight overall).
Too many duplicates can really cause trouble, could en up being taken as spam indexing since it's like pretending you have more content in your website.

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