Why would my homepage be ranked lower (Page Rank 2) than my other pages on the site (PR3) ?
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Why would my homepage be ranked lower (Page Rank 2) than my other pages on the site (PR3) ?
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Hi Woj
Just to clarify,
1. When getting backlinks to my homepage, such as the two juicy ones I got here http://ideamensch.com/dave-mayer/
I should point the link at http://www.getvetter.com ?
2. From now on I will direct basically every link (internal or external) site to http://www.getvetter.com/ whatever page
Ps. MinuteB’s Chat function is blocked on my day job PC
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Hey Duncan, Not sure what you mean by they'll get redirected to the httpS - if they come in from a link that is
[They will just pass through the SSL cert without redirection - returns a 200 code - which is fine. The canonical will take care of assigning 1 URL to the homepage
And.. yes, this is correct "and for internal links, say to other blog posts, i should also drop the secure 's' but the URLs in the example are back to front ;)](https://www.getvetter.com/)
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Hi Wol,
Just to be clear, your recommend I point all my inbound links that target the homepage to http://www.getvetter.com even though when they land on that page they'll get redirected to the httpS://www.getvetter.com ?
and for internal links, say to other blog posts, i should also drop the secure 's'. Example - i should link to this **https://**www.getvetter.com/posts/33-what-is-incremental-innovation-is-vetter-incremental-innovation-software rather than **http://**www.getvetter.com/posts/33-what-is-incremental-innovation-is-vetter-incremental-innovation-software
I just want to be certain I've picked you up right. thanks
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Well done Woj, well spotted
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Oh I just found the culprits.. in this blog post:
http://www.getvetter.com/posts/35-continuous-improvement-continuous-innovation-at-toyota-in-the-1950-s-classic-photothe anchor "employee creativity" points to:
https://www.getvetter.com/posts/29-employee-creativity-encouraged-by-crazy-office-decoration
also in,
the anchor "employee creativity" points to:
**https://**www.getvetter.com/posts/33-what-is-incremental-innovation-is-vetter-incremental-innovation-software
there are more.. too check the internal links throught the blog and change any https:// to just http:// and crawlers will no longer find them
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Ensure that the canonical & what you point everything to is the same..
i.e. http://www.getvetter.com for all inbound links & canonicals
or https://www.getvetter.com for all inbound links & canonicals
Given that the link profile is strongest with just http (& SSL certificates are generally slower for crawlers and end users) I'd go with that one
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Hi Woj,
That all makes sense, in my early days of linkbuilding we had no SSL cert. I'll point everything to https://www.getvetter.com from now on and work on the canonical problem.
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Looks like there are inbound links split between http://getvetter.com, http://www.getvetter.com and the https versions (https://getvetter.com & https://www.getvetter.com)
I always recommend to either use https sitewide - always on, or to only allow it after a form has been submitted so it doesn't get crawled
A link canonical should be applied to the homepage at least, the https issue may take longer to resolve:
If you're comfortable, then add a canonical to each page, e.g.
to the www.getvetter.com/tour page(but be careful to ensure it is respective to that page)
This may not fix the specific PR problem but should be addressed nevertheless
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Hi Alan and Istvan,
URL = www.getvetter.com
The majority of my links are pointed at the home page or the homepage with 'http' or withouth the 'www' etc. Very few inbound links point to the other pages.
Duncan
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Hi DMurtagh,
Well, did you check the inbound links for the index(PR2) and for the inner page(PR3).
To be honest, I would suggest you not to worry about this issue, there are a lot of websites that have valuable inner page content, and visitors tend to link to this pages more than to the home-page.
Maybe if you provide a link, we can have a look at it.
Hope, that helped,
Istvan
Later Edit: Also there might be the problem which was underlined by Alan.
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Can we get a url, there is a common error some make, where intern links point to /index.html ratehr then / causeing your home page rank to be split.
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