Not very long ago, this site had a front page, http://www.alltipsandtricks.com which I recently redirected to the blog page, http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog. I did this for two reasons:
1. I did not see the point of having a front page anymore, while there is an About one, that people can check if they want to know what this site is about.
2. I got more links to the /blog/ page, which got a PR5, but when I changed the tactics and linked more to the main page, both of them got PR4.
Now I don’t know which is better for improving PR: to use the main page for incoming links or to use the /blog/ one? In case the main page (which is now 301 redirected to the /blog/ page) scores better, will that PR be passed on to the /blog/ page?
I can’t find an answer to this and I would appreciate very much your input (I’m sure there are some of you who can help me).
Thank you very much!
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Unless I am mistaken or have bad memory, I do not think PR values are passed from one page to another on the same site, and that each page is almost treated as if it was a separate site. Also, search engines might wonder why everything is being redirected to a folder, though I think such a thing is not considered bad by google or others, since it is your site and you could run pages out of any place you want.
Again, I could be mistaken though. I am not sure of the indexing impact that having the main site redirected to a folder will have compared to what you have now, though if you want, you can add some summary or brief overview of the entire site on the main page also if your pr rating starts decreasing and you want to experiment with a few things.
Thank you Bes, I’ll wait for the next update to see if it improves, otherwise I’ll bring back the main page.
PR values won’t be passed along because Google doesn’t care where the link ends up but where the link is pointing
Thanks Cybersurge. Maybe this redirect was not a very good idea after all.
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