Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimizing and Search Engine Positioning Newsletter, September 24, 2005 edition

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(Continued) The RFS Newsletter, Sept. 24, 2005. Page 14

Once a file is ‘sitting’ at a certain PR level, it will usually stay there unchanged, unless the whole site goes up or down in PR value. But if somebody changes a filename, or just even its extension (for example, from a .html to a .php), then you will temporarily loose the PR on that file. That's just the way Google works. As for your robots.txt file, as I said previously, I have never worked with a free server so I cannot say this for certain, but what I can tell you is this: Generally speaking, most search engines today don’t take a free server very seriously and usually won’t rank such sites very high. Some may not agree with this, but I firmly believe this, since we've had about 10 clients in the past year that were on "free servers" and were nowhere to be found in the search engines.

Since they got a real domain name and they are now hosted on 'real servers', it is interesting to note that now they can be found in the search engines! In the past few years, I wrote a number of good articles on the many reasons why a serious site owner needs to get a ‘real’ domain name, and have his site hosted on a ‘real’ server. May I suggest you read those articles. Here are the links where you can find them:

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