L-word: is it worth replacing?

If the URL of a links page contains the word "link" (for example,
www.somename.com/links/ or www.somename.com/link_03.html), would it
adversely effect that links page's PR? I've heard some time before that it
could. By looking at the link pages on my website, I might suspect this
could be the case, but I am still not sure. Is it worth re-designing the
link URLs to exclude the l-word considering my link pages are ranked (PR3
and PR4 -- though the home page is PR6) and already contain a decent amount
of links to other sites, and their owners might not be happy to see PR0 for
the substitute links pages, though temporarily? -- Thanks. Mark.

Mark Shell wrote:

If the URL of a links page contains the word "link" (for example,
www.somename.com/links/ or www.somename.com/link_03.html), would it
adversely effect that links page's PR? I've heard some time before that it
could. By looking at the link pages on my website, I might suspect this
could be the case, but I am still not sure. Is it worth re-designing the
link URLs to exclude the l-word considering my link pages are ranked (PR3
and PR4 -- though the home page is PR6) and already contain a decent amount
of links to other sites, and their owners might not be happy to see PR0 for
the substitute links pages, though temporarily? -- Thanks. Mark.

I don't know the answer to that. But a question comes to mind: It will take
you a maximum of 3 to 4 seconds to rename a page whatever you'd like. So
what's the big deal?

Mark Shell wrote:

If the URL of a links page contains the word "link" (for example,
www.somename.com/links/ or www.somename.com/link_03.html), would it
adversely effect that links page's PR? I've heard some time before that it
could. By looking at the link pages on my website, I might suspect this
could be the case, but I am still not sure. Is it worth re-designing the
link URLs to exclude the l-word considering my link pages are ranked (PR3
and PR4 -- though the home page is PR6) and already contain a decent amount
of links to other sites, and their owners might not be happy to see PR0 for
the substitute links pages, though temporarily? -- Thanks. Mark.

If you do change the page name, be sure to have your server send an HTTP
301 message so SEs know that you have "moved" the page and not deleted
it. I believe if you do this, the PR will transfer, though I don't have
any solid proof. (Like any of us really do anyway!)

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I don't know the answer to that. But a question comes to mind: It will
take
you a maximum of 3 to 4 seconds to rename a page whatever you'd like. So
what's the big deal?

The big deal is that all my links pages become PR0 or PR<grey> till at least
the next Google PR update, and the webmasters linked to me might dislike
this fact, you know. I might looses a good deal of incoming links. And
this is a big deal, I would think.

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:01:15 +0000, Mark Shell wrote:

The big deal is that all my links pages become PR0 or PR<grey> till at least
the next Google PR update, and the webmasters linked to me might dislike
this fact, you know. I might looses a good deal of incoming links. And
this is a big deal, I would think.

1. Copy the current page to a new filename.

2. Edit the new page to be different enough from the old page to not trip
a "duplicate content" filter. i.e. rearrange all of the content and add
enough new content to change the page size.

3. Unlink the old page and link to the new page.

The old page will retain PR until the next update. The new page will
receive PR in the next update.

Sounds good, don't you think? I wonder if it will work? :-)


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