Comments on: Don’t Split Your PageRank http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/16/dont-split-your-pagerank/ A blog about our thoughts on entrepreneurship, teamwork, our services, the Web and anything we find interesting. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:50:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joanna Smith http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/16/dont-split-your-pagerank/comment-page-1/#comment-68968 Joanna Smith Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:29:32 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/16/dont-split-your-pagerank/#comment-68968 Your article summarizes the importance of avoiding splitting the pagerank for identical pages with different urls. I wrote an article about dynamically creating a 301 redirect without using a rewrite rule. http://www.smtusa.com/blog/posts/optimize-seo-pageranking-using-301-redirect.html I linked your article in my blog post. Great job. Your article summarizes the importance of avoiding splitting the pagerank for identical pages with different urls. I wrote an article about dynamically creating a 301 redirect without using a rewrite rule.
http://www.smtusa.com/blog/posts/optimize-seo-pageranking-using-301-redirect.html
I linked your article in my blog post. Great job.

]]> By: Bruno http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/16/dont-split-your-pagerank/comment-page-1/#comment-11700 Bruno Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:16:04 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/16/dont-split-your-pagerank/#comment-11700 Redirecting your inbound links so as to consolidate your top level domain is a great idea that anyone maintaining a commercial web site should implement right from the start. However, Freshbooks seems to have gone about it using the subdomain that should be high on everyone's priority to drop. Namely "www" "www" was appropriate in 1995. It was relevant in 1997. In 2000 it started showing signs of being superfluous. In 2006 it's just completely and obviously redundant. No one needs to be reminded that a domain name is a valid web address. The TLD (.com .net .org etc..) do that already. The "www" subdomain only serves to marr the site's brand within the address bar. Redirecting your inbound links so as to consolidate your top level domain is a great idea that anyone maintaining a commercial web site should implement right from the start.

However, Freshbooks seems to have gone about it using the subdomain that should be high on everyone’s priority to drop. Namely “www”

“www” was appropriate in 1995. It was relevant in 1997. In 2000 it started showing signs of being superfluous. In 2006 it’s just completely and obviously redundant.

No one needs to be reminded that a domain name is a valid web address. The TLD (.com .net .org etc..) do that already. The “www” subdomain only serves to marr the site’s brand within the address bar.

]]> By: Jeffrey Sarmiento http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/16/dont-split-your-pagerank/comment-page-1/#comment-10662 Jeffrey Sarmiento Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:50:17 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/16/dont-split-your-pagerank/#comment-10662 Hi BJ, Great tip! I've been into Google Sitemaps/Webmaster Tools briefly before and didn't even notice that tool. Although there is a note there that says Google doesn't guarantee the URL you prefer will show in the search results. You could however use this tool in combination with an htaccess redirect which may further help in improving your PageRank. But again, nice tip! Hi BJ,
Great tip! I’ve been into Google Sitemaps/Webmaster Tools briefly before and didn’t even notice that tool.

Although there is a note there that says Google doesn’t guarantee the URL you prefer will show in the search results. You could however use this tool in combination with an htaccess redirect which may further help in improving your PageRank.

But again, nice tip!

]]> By: BJ Vicks http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/16/dont-split-your-pagerank/comment-page-1/#comment-10654 BJ Vicks Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:05:38 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/08/16/dont-split-your-pagerank/#comment-10654 Google's webmaster tools ( http://www.google.com/webmasters/ ) have an option that allows you to set a preferred domain, as of quite recently. Might help avoid hacking at the .htaccess file Google’s webmaster tools ( http://www.google.com/webmasters/ ) have an option that allows you to set a preferred domain, as of quite recently. Might help avoid hacking at the .htaccess file

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