Re: FN-FORUM: Introduction

date posted 29th June 2005 15:56


On 29 Jun 2005, at 16:00, LittleFish Web Design wrote:

> (1) How long will a website with a more common theme e.g. web
> design take to
> get a Google PR (subject to it being a reasonable site etc...
> etc...), as a
> very rough guestimate?

If you do it right, it can be within a couple of days. Link to it
from any vaguely established blog, and it'll be found pretty quickly.

This doesn't imply you'll get a good PR, mind you.

> (2) On the subject of Google, I know that if you redesign a site
> with a PR/
> high rank, to try and keep the structure and filenames as similar
> to the old
> design as possible. Does this also apply with the file type? I have
> a client
> with a site full of server side includes, of which in this instant
> there is
> no point in having, and want to convert it back to standard htm
> files. Will
> there be a penalisation with Google for this, or is filetype not a
> consideration?

The point of server side includes is it assembles the bits of the
page, and spits it out as one chunk. ie, Google (or anyone else)
won't know or care if the page is constructed of SSIs or not.

...j