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Yes you can get your rankings back. Here is a blog post of an experiment we did on this exact same scenario. http://miamiwebcompany.com/blog/study-website-recover-from-a-bad-301-redirect

greast response. It makes sense they can understand the difference. Seems like a basic thing. Just want sure how picky they are regarding to consistency and format. Thank you all.

What is the BEST approach: abbreviated citations or fully spelled out citations?

For the purpose of ranking locally in google what is the best method of formatting citations? Would it be abbreviated or fully spelled out addresses.

Southwest v.s. SW  v.s. Sw

Avenue v.s. AVE vs. Ave

Didnt say thanks before, so thank you. One question I did not think of. Should the internal linking of the site be to the file name with extension or no extension?

I think it should be without extension but just want to double check.

Hi Ben. I tried this code on another hosting account and it did worked. The first account was a VPS account from Godaddy. The second was a shared account from the same hosting company. Im not sure why it works on one and not on the other. I did see the mod_rewrite option enabled.

Hi Ben. Thanks for your help but this does not work for some reason. Im testing it on an old site I have that is html and I just replaced php for html but both URL's still resolves.

I have been searching and testing for hours but cannot find a solution. I am able to get a URL to display with out the file exntension.

i.e domain.com/file instead of domain.com/file.php

The problem is both versions of the URL above work, therefore a duplicate content issue. How can I force the URL with the file extension not to resolve and give a 404 error? Or just redirect to the non extension URL?

IF it helps here is my code.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

I recently changed the URL of a page and used a 301 redirect from old to new. I just realized I lost all my Facebook shares. Now it shows 0 on that page. What can I do to get back my count of shares? I cannot find any information.

So if its divided by 20, than it makes no sense to add the same menu links on the footer. IT will be divided by 10 and pass 1/10 then juice. Am I correct?

Hello all. If I have 10 links on a menu linking to 10 different pages, and 10 links on the footer linking to the same pages, does PageRank get divided by 10 or 20?