2 PR ratings for the same site?

http://www.noddegamra.co.uk/forum/ is PR2
http://www.noddegamra.co.uk/forum/index.php is PR 1

why can't google tell it is the same URL/destination/landing page?

 

Technically they are two separate url's and can have unique PR. It probably means you have sites linking to each.

 

You have a redirect set up to point to the www. had that not been there, then you may of had yet another PR rating

Technically there are like 4 ways to see most index pages...

http://www.noddegamra.co.uk/forum/
http://www.noddegamra.co.uk/forum/index.php
http://noddegamra.co.uk/forum/
http://noddegamra.co.uk/forum/index.php

 

Chances are all your back links are pointing to the first one and the second one is just getting juice from the first one. This is typical for inner pages and even though they are technically the same page, they are considered two different pages when it comes to PR. That is the reason that you always do back links to either www. domain. com or just domain. com .

Since PR is based of back links, the one with the back links pointing to it will be the one that gets the most juice from the back links.

 

Thanks for your help on this. Slightly confusing as how the google algorith can't group these URL's and give them the same PR.

 

Pagerank is assigned to each URL, it's your job to group them together with a 301 redirect if they are the same pages. You can have different content on each one, so they don't deserve the same PR automatically.

Google "does" however make a calculation on which one is strongest and displays it first in the SERP's.

 

even google doesn;t know everything
don;t worry too much about your page's toolbar PR. keep woking on SEO and link building. your page PR deosn;t have a direct impact on yuor traffic

 

so do I count my forum as being PR2?

 

Yes PR2 but i would do a 301 redirect from /forum/index.php to just /forum/

Otherwise leaving it as is will just be wasting PR and you will have 2 copies (Duplicate) of the one webpage.

 

Even if he does 301 redirection, he would still have PR1 for /forum, he should have thought of doing this on first place.

 

Google tells each page PR...Homepage for example has often the highest PR

 

thanks sweetfunny, i will try to set that up later today or tomorrow

 

That two links are different. The one with PR1 is a deeplink and deeplink can have PR too, not only the main page..

 

i couldnt get the 301 redirct to work. Nor a rewrite rule to remove the index.php like i do with my main site url.

bah, nevermind :/

 

What code are you using?

You need to place the rewrite rule in a .htaccess file inside your /forum/ directory and not in your homepage or root directory.

 

ah, i had it in the root. lol - oops.

thanks