Why is the page rank of this site low even after redirection from a high PR site?

Why is the page rank of this site low even after redirection from a high PR site? - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Why is the page rank of this site low even after redirection from a high PR site? error on your web browser. Problem :

The title may seem funny, but deal is this:

www.cricinfo.com was a famous and I think PR 7 site.

Few months back, they changed name to www.espncricinfo.com . www.cricinfo.com now redirects to www.espncricinfo.com .

Then why, still after two months, is the PR of www.espncricinfo.com still 3?

I am especially curious because I hear google updated their PR in the last week or so.

Solution :

They seems to put a correct redirection header (moved permanently, with the new URI), but maybe at the start, they don't do it correctly (redirection with JS). So, it cause a loss in the page rank of the original site, and just a share of the page rank of the original site to the new site…

Because sites still link to the original URL and not the new one. The number of visitors won't have dropped but links are weighted higher than visitors in the algorithm.

PR is not transferred from one site to another with any type of redirection, it always needs to build it up again. Having the right redirects is merely the quickest way for this to happen.

I would like to chime in that you really don't need to worry about PR. Google itself says not to worry about PR. It's an older tool and was used as an indicator in the past, but it no longer carries the same weight that it used to.

To give you an example, I've been able to successfully outrank PR 6, 7, and 8 pages on a 2-word keyword phrase with 1.5M monthly hits (position 3 in Google) and the site is only PR5.

Elsewhere I've been able to rank PR 0, 1, and 2 sites for 3-word plus keyword phrases going against PR5+ sites and captured the top spot.

Long story short, focus on getting great links and building great content.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the seo, pagerank, redirects error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!