PageRank Issue

Guys
Lately the traffic for my site at www.adruniverse.com has gone down considerably. I think I have an issue with Google PageRank.

Seems like I have 2 different PRs for the home page.
Details:

http://adruniverse.com/wp/
PR=1

http://adruniverse.com/wp/index.php
No PageRank Information Available

Is this problem that I need to fix?.

Thanks in advance.
-David

 

There's no relationship between PageRank and traffic.
You might have a canonical issue however, that's confusing your results in serps -
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/

 

This used to be a big problem, but was fixed a while back. For about 6 months they have been treating duped pages like your top level domain, pages like index.php, index.html, index.shtml, www and non-www URLs that are essentially the same page as equals and display the same PR. I have noticed in the past few weeks though that more and more sites are once again showing 2 different Page Ranks for those pages again. Did the do away with that? It seems odd that they would if it was working properly. Maybe it wasn't. Anyone else notice this?

 

may because Google discovered the two site pages are the same

 

I totally agree with magda . There is no relation between page rank and rankings. You can get page rank very easily but rankings are quite difficult task. get 2 or 3 quality links and get pr but rankings you have to wait!!!!!!!!

 

Ahh sir i think their is hard competition going on and you must have lost your rankings on those keywords . Start working again and everything will work like past again . I lost my page rank but traffic is increasing day by day .

 

Yes, i agree with magda, you can do promotes (SEM) your site.

 

Consider redirection both the 'domain.com/index.***' and the 'domain.com/' to one url only.. of your choice by using L301 redirections.. it's called URL canalization as mentioned by 'magda' above..

 

On of the reason regarding the 2 type PR is the internal and external links having both URL instead of unique one. I saw this type of issue then I change all my links to unique URL , then the problem solved

 

use htaccess rewrite mod to make both those links same

 

Thanks Magda for the link.
I will try to fix this after reading that post.

Thanks atulperx.That could be a reason since
a few months ago my site was hacked and I
had to rebuild everything.

Thanks IEmailer for the suggestion.I may
have to seek the help of my ISP to
fix this since I am not a technical person.

Thanks Rena and myemailid911.I will try
your ideas also.

I will post an update soon once I resolve
this issue.

Cheers!
-David

 

I checked with my ISP and they said that my htaccess file points
to the same location adrunivese.com//wp/index.php.
So 301 redirection is not needed.

However thinks http://adruniverse.com/wp/ and
and http://adruniverse.com/wp/index.php are different
and assigns different page ranks.

When I type www.adruniverse.com in the browser it
goes to http://adruniverse.com/wp/index.php (Has no PR).
Also when I type without the www as adruniverse.com
it goes to the same index.php page.

However when I check the "BackWard Links" there is
no matched links at all.(link:http://adruniverse.com/wp/index.php)

But when I type http://adruniverse.com/wp/ in the browser
Google says 13 linking to http://adruniverse.com/wp/.

What is the problem in this case and how do I fix it?

Thanks for your help.
-David