There most certainly is a difference. With a / it's a directory Without a / it's a file. Normally, you webserver will add a / if it knows that what is being asked for is a directory. EDIT: yahoo likes to remove the /index.html on one of mysites when following links. Their spider is a right pita to point in the right direction, and I'll be damned if I'm goin g to change my preferred way of internal linking just to suit them. What I mean is if I link to www.domain/testing/index.html, I'll continually see slurp requesting www.domain/testing which is fine if it's a real filesystem but if it's a virtual mod_rewrite filesystem then catching slurp becomes a fun game.
::yawn:: Let me as a simple question to all you PR junkies --- Has your traffic increased because your PR went up? If the answer is no, then you need to ignore this thread and start doing things that will increase your traffic. Your website success is tied to traffic -- NOT pagerank. PR means nothing as far as traffic. Go get some more traffic. Add some content, do some link building - forget about PR.
Not to mention how much the price of pixels went up by I wonder how many pixel sites got in in time to get some PR? http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ --> PR7
Not that it means much... but for the record, my PR5 site stayed at P5. My forums went up from PR4 to PR5 and I was able to recoup my PR on internal pages after I had a bundle of 301 redirects set up to correlate with my new site architecture. -Chris
GG was quoted on webmasterworld as saying "don't expect PR to flow from those pixels <emoticon here>"
Yeah I saw that except I can still guarantee that if you have a knock off pixel site, having some PR will help you. The original doesn't need help due to its exposure of course
Actually the same day that my first site got its first PR from google my traffic increased to a level where I did 50% of the traffic I did for September yesterday. So I guess PR does something... [By the way the two things have nothing to do with each other...the traffic came from something else.. ]
One site from 5 to 6 and another from 2 to 3. Great, eh? Except I have had a battering from Jagger so have a lot less traffic this week than I did last week.
High PR I guess serves a purpose if you get some advertisers to believe that it's important. Same thing with Alexa rankings. People out there are confused. A lot of webmasters take advantage of that. I just believe that in an seo forum, this thread is pretty much a waste of time. There is not much that I see worth being paid attention to, unless you're fascinated with the technology behind this (some people are, and that's cool ) Mike Added: I do pay a lot more attention to Alexa rankings than PR btw.