My PageRank changes from 6 to 0 when I view page with index.html at the end

I have a website (something like http://www.example.com/folder/ ) which shows a pagerank of 6. When I put in http://www.example.com/folder/index.html, my pagerank shows as ZERO. What is going on?

How can I get both versions to show up at pagerank of 6?

Also, I checked the statistics and I have about 1 visitor on average per day for this PR 6 site. That seems quite odd. My understanding was that pagerank in part indicated the quality and ranking of the site, resulting in higher traffic.

Any help in understanding this would be great.

Thanks,
Babloo

 

the url that shows PR6 probably has most backlinks were the url with index.html probably has little or no backlinks, its the same as your site with www.url and non www url you can only get pagerank for one not both unless you get backlinks for both urls.
Hopefully you get my point.
with a pr6 site you should get some good results and traffic but only if the site has been optimised for relevant keyword searches.

 

URLs http://www.domain.com, http://domain.com, http://www.domian.com/index.html and http://domain.com/index.html are for search engines 4 different URLs. So it is normal that if you have a lot of backlinks to http://www.domain.com and no links to http://www.domain.com/index.html that the second URL has PR 0.

 

You do not need the index page ranked it is same page with or with out the index.html. You might need to look at keywords your using if only 1 vistor. Sounds like no one is searching what site is listed for.

 

thats the problem when indexing so many pages wrong, my homepage was less visitors then my sub pages

 

You need to setup a redirect so when you hit index.html it gets redirected to the root folder.

 

So if I add links on that site to other sites, will it share the benefit of the pagerank value over? I know that the more links I have, the PR value is split.

I have a celebrity directory site and was considering adding over 1000 links (1 for each celebrity's homepage) on that site. Or should I just link to the main celebrity homepage?

 

A long time ago Google used to consider /index.html the same as /

Apparently that has changed. You might as well follow cormac's advice, but Google really is screwing up here if everyone is made to do just that to avoid a duplicate content penalty.

Frankly I think the toolbar PR is worth it's price in gold. That is, it's not worth a thing.

 

I've redirected the index.html to the root folder.

QUESTION: What kind of effect would the following link have in the following example?

PR 6 page above linking to the PR 3 domain page

Here the PR of 6 is shared across the PR 3 domain.

 

Actually what I really want to know is if it be more beneficial to put 1000 links to other folders on the same domain.

Example: PR 6 page above linking to over 1000 pages (PR 0 to 2) on the same domain

This would mean that the pagerank of 6 would be shared across over a thousand links. Does this defeat the value of having links from PR 6 page?

 

It's better to implement what's called a 301 redirect file for this issue. It basically redirects all requests to 1 version of your domain. (ex www.yourdomain.com, yourdomain.com, www.yourdomain.com/index.html) all redirected to 1 URL www.yourdomain.com

Otherwise google will see all the above URLs as seperate pages and rank them accordingly or even penalize them for duplicate content.

 

because they are different urls . and i strongly suggest you to redirect index.html to your main page (sitename.com)