Writing Online
on my (ab)use of Radio Userland
Wednesday, August 27, 2003Earth to John and Dave: RTFM
Dave notes that UserLand's RSS PageRank is now zero. Google doesn't follow redirects when calculating PageRank. My old PageRank was 7/10. Now it is zip. I have also found that Google isn't updating the calclation that often. They must be batching it each quarter. I have seen lots of sites stuck at zero even though they are popular. [John Robb's Weblog]
Google does follow redirects. However, and here's where you're losing it, for PageRank to follow they have to be 301 Moved Permanently redirects. Google couldn't give a shit about Dave's attempt at an RSS redirect, and 302 Found redirects are temporary, so why should the index update anything?
12:31:00 PM # Google It!
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