When using the toolbar to check my sites PR, I noted that when I entered http://www.mysite.com it showed my PR but when I entered http://mysite.com my PR was 0. I've also tried this for other sites and it is always the same...one shows PR and the other doesn't. I no it's probably no big deal. Just curious if anyone else noticed this.
any subdomain can have different rank. Most people redirect one way or the other so its always the same.
Thanks shoemoney, but these are not subdomains. When I type in my domain or any page that has PR from the domain and include the www it shows PR but leave the www out it does not. Just find it kinda weird...
mysite.com and www.mysite.com are different page in the search engines eyes. If you have no links to mysite.com then it will have no PR.
www. and non www are 2 different pages as far as search engines go same as test.domain. com or help . domain .com etc
It's not the HTTP request - it's the "www" prefix: www.mysite.com www.www.mysite.com www1.mysite.com www2.mysite.com subfolder.mysite.com are all potentially different subdomains of mysite.com. In most cases, of course, www.mysite.com and mysite.com point to the same page, but conceivably they might not in some configurations. That's why they are treated differently.
You should probably use .htaccess to redirect from mysite.com to www.mysite.com. There must be plenty of refs here regarding how to do that. You might check ekstreme's page.
http://yourdomain.com http://www.yourdomain.com http://yourdomain.com/index.php http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php Google see this like 4 different pages. So if you link to homepage from any of your website, use <a href="./.">Home</a> instead <a href="index.php">Home</a> to avoid loosing PR.