Page Rank Lost After Website Transfer
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Hello,
I recently transferred a website from Ruby on Rails to Wordpress in order to help with the site's responsiveness. I kept all of the URLs the exact same, but when I transferred it only the homepage and one other page kept their page ranks, all of the others have lost theirs completely. Almost every page on the site was at least a PR 2, and now their not ranked, and not ranking in the top of search engines like they were before. I am not quite sure what might have caused this, like I said, I kept the URLs all the exact same and its strange that 2 pages were not effected.
I crawled the site with Screaming From and all of the pages that lost their page rank have a status as "Moved Permanently". They are the exact same URL, but they are listed without www. in front, could this have something to do with it?
The website is www.goenergylink.com, and you will see that the homepage and "Residential" page still have their page rank, but none of the others do.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thanks
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Google has not updated their pagerank since December 2013. It is an outdated metric and you should not be worrying about it. The url was changed so the new url has no pagerank and never will, but it doesn't make the page any less strong.
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Hey Ryan,
Thanks for the reply. The site was originally being built by someone else on Wordpress on the mcmarketingdesigns.com URL before being transferred to the goenergylink URL, I guess when it was transferred over, somehow the sitemap did too? I have a sitemap submitted to GWT and no, I am not receiving any warnings or errors.
I will make sure to redirect http://www.goenergylink.com/Home.aspx to the homepage, but need to somehow figure out how to fix the sitemap issue. Any suggestions? Also, what are you using when you see that as the sitemap?
Thanks again for the help!
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Hi Matt. Yes, spidering the URLs without the www. will trigger a 301 Redirect "Moved Permanently" as the site is setup to have the subdomain 'www' as default. The inbound links however also use the www. from a cursory glance, but I'm noticing that some point to aspx pages, for example: http://www.goenergylink.com/Home.aspx which now returns a 404 so it doesn't look like you used the completely same names. Further, there's no 301 Redirect in place for pointing that Home.aspx page to its new location.
The 'sitemap' here is also oddly executed: www.mckmarketingdesigns.com/sitemap/ and links like these: http://www.thecontrolrooms.com/apps/members/membersList?offset=1&q=&sort=DISPLAY_NAME&view=list with the anchor text, "Insulation Services Columbia Mo" are spammy as well.
Are you receiving warnings from GWT?
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