Re: ensure PR focus is on homepage

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:53:48 +0100, Brothermark wrote:

Hello,
My most important page by far is my homepage so I'm in the process of
chanelling all (well most anyway) of my available PR to the homepage. I
read somewhere that SE spiders count the following 2 URLs as separate
pages:

1) www.domain.com
2) www.domain.com/index.htm

And I believe it is better for PR if google (and the rest of the web) only
sees (and links to) one of these files. Currently, when I want my pages to
link back to the homepage, I use "/index.htm" which creates URL #2 from
the above list.

So my quetions is, for my internal links which point to the homepage,
should I use the full url http://www.domain.com instead of /index.htm?

thanks
mark

you can use absolute address:
http://www.domain.com/
or
http://www.domain.com
(but by omiting the trailing /, this will cause the webserver to make a
second request for http://www.domain.com/ )

or you can use the simple relative address which is:
/

both absolute and relative will go to http://www.domain.com/

--
Edward Alfert, President, RootMode, LLC
http://www.rootmode.com/

you can use absolute address:
http://www.domain.com/

thanks Edward.
You mean I should enter the whole absolute address at the coding stage?
Just checking?
Thanks for the tip about the trailing "/"

mark

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:28:33 +0100, Brothermark wrote:

you can use absolute address:
http://www.domain.com/

thanks Edward.
You mean I should enter the whole absolute address at the coding stage?
Just checking?

you can use either http://www.domain.com/ or just simply /

both will be translatted to not include index.htm so that google only
indexes http://www.domain.com/

But, if you use / only, you might get into a situation where you are
indexed as both http://www.domain.com/ and http://domain.com/

--
Edward Alfert, President, RootMode, LLC
http://www.rootmode.com/