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[WarrantyDirect]

Hello Everyone,

We just launched a redesigned site. The old site had a PR 5 and now the new sites PR is 0.

A link which has a PR 4 is to a page that no longer exists. Is there a certain type of redirect that would help transition our PR from this and other broken links?

Any other suggestions? Its the travel website in my profile.

[Gerardism]

When I checked your old site in the wayback machine, all your page extensions were asp, and your new site is aspx, so it just seems that where the file names are different (new pages) you'll have to wait til the next PR update.

In the redesign just recently, did you just make the switch over from asp to aspx? If so, that seems to be whats happening.

[WarrantyDirect]

Correct. We switched from asp to aspx. Once the pr update happens it will go back to the old pr? Thanks again.

[Jeff Martin]

Once the pr update happens it will go back to the old pr? Probably, provided there havent been other changes to lower/raise your PR.

Have you consdiered 301 redirecting your old .aps pages to the .aspx pages?

[jewboy]

I was in a similar situation. The way I solved it was by using Mod_Rewrite to keep the old file names, even though the extensions changed. This was for a migration from HTML to ASP.