Pagerank mystery

[znotes]

Hello SEO brethren -

I've got a mystery I'm trying to solve. I work in house SEO at http://www.uncommongoods.com/

Our home page is a Pagerank 5. All of our sub-pages are Pagerank 0. Even this one below which has 276 links from 57 domains:

http://www.uncommongoods.com/product/recycled-wine-bottle-platters

Any clue what is going on here? Is a PR 0 typical for a page with this many links / linking domains?

Thanks!

-Zack

[Audiohype]

No worries, best of luck with it

[znotes]

Hey Ben,

Great advice, I think you are dead on. Big help thank you!

-Zack

[Audiohype]

In that case you will have all new URLs and the google toolbar won't be pulling off the data. This is why the homepage still has the PR as it hasn't changed.

It's just a case of waiting to get that back, you have done a redirect but it may take a while for these to be updated on the website. As the URL is different Google will still be waiting to update the toolbar.

I would personally not worry about it, at least you have the mozbar details.

Hope this helps,

Ben

[znotes]

Hey Ben thanks for your feedback.

We did change the extensions somewhat recently..We didn’t use .html, but we did use .jsp before a site redesign in October.  So for instance, our item page URLs used to be:

www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?itemId=13271

and are now:

www.uncommongoods.com/product/pee-pee-teepees

We never had an extension on the homepage; for category pages (non-product pages), we made the switch around June 2010, and for the product pages and all other pages we made the switch in October 2010.

What would you suggest we do as a solution to get our page rank back?

[Audiohype]

Hi Zack,

Have you recently changed the extensions on your URLs? e.g. removed .html

This could be one cause.

Ben