Q and A: Why did my site have a better Google PR when it was on another domain?

Dear Kalena...

Thanks for your answer to my last question. What's curious is how my *other* site (tony.thehungs.org), where my content resided before I transferred evreyting to its current domain, got a PR in the SAME amount of time (and still does).

Sure, its a PR of 2, but at least its not zero.

Have any idea why this is?

Kalena's Answer:

Dear Tony

Ok, couple of explanations:

1) The old site content was actually on a sub-domain and that site would take it's Google PR from the main domain http://thehungs.org. Although I see that site is password protected so it can't be indexed by search engines - has it always been this way?

2) The old domain was .org. Some people swear that .org and .gov sites are given a slight boost in the rankings and/or are not subject to Google's aging delay. No idea if this is currently true.

A final comment - If you have moved your blog to a permanent location, you should get rid of that old blog content or use Permanent Redirect 301s to point it to your new domain, because it *may* be considered duplicate content (same name, titles etc) and might be affecting your PR at the new site or causing Google to ignore the new site.

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