Losing Page Rank after 301 redirect from http to www

[ilovebodykits]

Hi Guys

I have site-wide redirected all http// to www and all the category pages lost their page ranks (except home page).  I would like to know if this is normal and is it one of the possible causes in losing keyword ranking?

[Theo-NL]

Did you check whether it was a proper 301 redirect that you did? You can use tools like HttpFox (firefox add-on for this). If so, how did you measure this loss in 'page ranks' (and what exactly do you mean by this?)

[ilovebodykits]

Hi Theo

The page ranks on most of the category pages were PR2 and up. Its now 0 after the redirect.

[ProjectLabs]

The toolbar PageRank doesn't update very frequently so if you moved your content to a new page it makes sense that you don't see any toolbar PageRank right away. It may reappear when Google makes their next update. However, the pages probably do have actual PageRank since the 301 redirect should transfer the authority from the old pages to the new pages. It just doesn't register yet for the toolbar PageRank that you can see.

[yeagerd]

In my experience, when you 301, you get about 60% of the PR to transfer.  Somewhat guessing but we did the same thing, once all the dust settled our PR3 was a PR2 etc.

I would be interested to know if others had the same xp.