2 diffrent PRs

Why does my site have two diffrent pageranks.

One for when I have www. infront of the domain and one without it?

for example,

http://www.thewebmasterstool.com/ has a PR4

http://thewebmasterstool.com/ has a PR2


What is the cause? and is there anyway I can fix it?

Thanks

 

You need to do a 301 redirect from the non-www version to the www version.

 

Thanks for that, can you tell me how to do that please

 

I need to know how to do that too.

Also is there a way of adding both PRs togther?

 

asgsoft,

Type the following into your .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thewebmasterstool.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.thewebmasterstool.com [R=301,L]

 

Thank you very much

it works

would it combine both PRs and give a larger one?

 

I heard that in time it will.

 

So I might end up with a PR6?

Thats excellent news

thanks again

 

hmm, not sure if they add up arithmetically. I think it's more likely that your http://yoursite will show the same PR as http://www.yoursite.

 

what if you dont have a .htaccess file?

 

Create one and upload it to the server. Create a plain text file called htaccess.txt. Upload it to the root directory of your site. Then rename it .htaccess.

 

hmmm, interesting, I will need to give this a try.

 

Simply means that your www. version of your domain got more backlinks than without it.

 

its interesting as well, my new blog www has PR 0 and non www has PR 1,
I think its the matter of consistency which one you want to use for default.

I prefer non www one as I am to lazy to type in www.

 

Does how people link to you make a difference? Like, is more people use www. than without?

 

well yes becuase thats how the links becomes indexed

 

the site with www has more backlinks than the one without www.

 

55+ it's same but www ummm

 

you must use 301 redirect to avoid from that . if you do this , i think google will fix your page rank to 4