By boytaichi on

I installed the front page module, and created a front page. Now my site has lost google pagerank. I'd appreciate if someone can tell me how to get my pagerank back.
Thanks.

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3cwebdev’s picture

3cwebdev commented

I'm not familiar with the Front Page module, but if your 'front/home page' URL has changed this will cause your page rank to go down. Note that sometimes page rank is even different between www. and non www. URLS. I suspect that your original page rank is still valid for the previous exact URL.

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dnewkerk commented

Make sure to read and follow the advice here: http://www.lullabot.com/articles/duplicate-content-and-you

In particular make sure you are using Global Redirect module. What is the URL of your home page (not specifically, but is it still example.com or are you seeing something like example.com/front or something like that?).

Personally I don't like Front Page module, see my thoughts about it here and for alternatives: Methods of creating Drupal home pages

I don't think changing your home page however can affect your page rank. Google Page Rank is completely about links to your site... the more/better links pointing to your site, the higher your page rank. You could, however lose "SERP" by changing your front page (search engine results position)... either because the new front page becomes less relevant due to changes in the text or less semantic markup, or because some change gets interpreted as a trick and you get penalized, or because the URL changes and Google still assigns the PR to the original path. High PR also does not guarantee top search results position, it is just a helping factor.

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