[PhilM]

Hi everyone, I'm new here and I wonder if you can help me with a question I have about a

The company I work for has numerous websites, recently we've had an SEO company look at one of our sites with a view to helping us optimise it.

We've been told that potentially we are losing page rank. Our sites home pages are all .co.uk but if you navigate around the site and comeback to the homepage you get taken to .co.uk/index.html

We have been told that the /index.html is taking page rank away from the main home page at .co.uk

I didn't think this was the case, hence asking the question.

Any help/suggestions would be really appreciated.

Thanks
Phil

[andyf]

Originally Posted by PhilM

Hi everyone, I'm new here and I wonder if you can help me with a question I have about a

The company I work for has numerous websites, recently we've had an SEO company look at one of our sites with a view to helping us optimise it.

We've been told that potentially we are losing page rank. Our sites home pages are all .co.uk but if you navigate around the site and comeback to the homepage you get taken to .co.uk/index.html

We have been told that the /index.html is taking page rank away from the main home page at .co.uk

I didn't think this was the case, hence asking the question.

Any help/suggestions would be really appreciated.

Thanks
Phil

lol, they are just fooling you, PR depends on quality backlinks nothing else
You can redirect (301) to your /index.html to your mail page if you are much concern about it.

[paulanthony]

Originally Posted by andyf

lol, they are just fooling you, PR depends on quality backlinks nothing else

Rubbish.

To a spider, www.domain.com/, domain.com/, www.domain.com/index.html and domain.com/index.html are different urls and, therefore, different pages. Surfers arrive at the site's home page whichever of the urls are used, but spiders see them as individual urls, and it makes a difference when working out the PageRank. It is better to standardize the url you use for the site's home page. Otherwise each url can end up with a different PageRank, whereas all of it should have gone to just one url.

[andyf]

Originally Posted by paulanthony

Rubbish.

To a spider, www.domain.com/, domain.com/, www.domain.com/index.html and domain.com/index.html are different urls and, therefore, different pages. Surfers arrive at the site's home page whichever of the urls are used, but spiders see them as individual urls, and it makes a difference when working out the PageRank. It is better to standardize the url you use for the site's home page. Otherwise each url can end up with a different PageRank, whereas all of it should have gone to just one url.

No offence mate
I think you are not getting me, I have suggested that rather then having different url for a home page use 301 redirect for all of them and redirect them to a single url. You know 301 redirect is most SE friendly.

Do you still think PR is important ? There had been lot of talk about it's value at different webmasters forum. I think you must be aware of it