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Hi Sha,

Thanks for your reply!

I checked in to the visits on the site as they have remained fairly consistent from the months prior. I understand the PR toolbar is not updated regularly, and that PR has limited value in the grand scheme of things. My concern is largely on the PR as is the most visible factor at the moment, based on that the 301 redirect  "should" have maintained most(?) of the PR with out disruption.

It is just very odd that this would happen with in days of the change, the content has not changed drastically.... this is going to sound like a stretch but, is it possible Google has attributed my root domain against the sub-domain as duplicate content in it's cache regardless of the 301 redirect?

I am just trying to understand the problem, if it really is one, and if there is any good solutions apart from just waiting it out and rebuilding on what we currently have in place now. Everything I have changed was in accordance to the way it "should" be according to Google and the internet at large...

Thanks!

Hi Wayne,

I am currently using mod_rewrite to rewrite the sub-domain to the root domain. Is the 301 not a permanent redirect?

Also mod_rewrite can pass a header(301) with the redirect of the domain, which from what I understand "should" have told Google, etc.. that the site is now moved permanently.
What header should be used for the redirect?

Prior to me changing the www domain to a non www domain it was reversed and going the other direction... non www domain redirect to the www domain.

Rearding the Canonicalitzation, I have additional rewrite rules to combat duplicate content issues such as index.php rewritten to / and so on and so forth... as well as the sub-domain to root domain rewrites

Thanks!

Hi,

We have a www domain that I have changed to a non www domain. The www domain had been in place for some time and had a good page rank, PR4.

After this change the page rank dropped significantly (PR0, and now recently back to PR2) despite it being a 301 redirect which I thought  "should" carry over the page rank.

Yes, I am aware I should have just left it be. Hind sight 20/20 .. ya ya ya

My questions

• Is the 301 the correct method for this?
• Why did the page rank drop despite the 301?
• Should we go back to the www domain at this point?

Thanks

Kris