Pagerank and combining pages

[cbielich]

I have a site where my homepage is a PR3. My main menu contains 6 links which are all PR1's.

Example: Homepage, link1,link2,link3,link4,link5,link6

I have figured a way to make things easier for my users by combining 3 of those 6 links to my home page. So basically link1,link2 and link4 will now point to my homepage where it will contain the content and tools all in one. I will do the proper redirects on those links to point to my homepage again so google knows I moved them.

My question is by moving 3 PR1 pages to my home page which is a PR3 will this increase my pagerank for my home page?

[watkinsheating]

My guess is that you have not yet built backlinks to your deep pages and their pagerank is coming solely from the link on the menu of your homepage (which means there's no linkjuice to redirect). If you did have deep links, a redirect would salvage some authority and add it to your homepage.

"PR3" is a pretty useless metric anymore. Install the seomoz toolbar and use PA as a much better measure of your link profile.

[Francisco_Meza]

Cesar, you are bringing me back to times when I first asked questions like this.hehe

Ok, think about it like this. "IF" that were true, don't you think all of us on SEOMoz would have already done it.

Don't optimize for search engines. Optimize for conversions! Do the best thing for your visitors.

Your answer is... not likely if those pages have no authority.