Google PR http://www.domain-name.com vs. http://domain-name.

[ran]

Hey guys, hopefully you will be able to help me out.

I would like to understand difference between http://www.domain-name.com Vs. http://domain-name.com in terms of PR.

I’m getting totally different results of PR for same domain name on google tool bar as well as seochat tool ‘pagerank lookup'

Any clue or help will be great.
Ran

[scanmonkey]

Google see the www and the non-www as separate urls

[cyanide]

This is discussed all over the place.

What you have to do, is first decide which one you prefer (www or non-www)

Then create a 301 re-direct to forward one to the other

[ran]

Hi,Scanmonkey & Cyanide,
Thanks! for reply.
I have a good (PR7) for non www domain-name and PR-Zero for www.domain-name.
I would like to use www.domain-name as a domain name in future.
Does this make any sence to use 301 redirect to point to www.url at this stage or will it impact on current PR?
regards
Ran

[jackson992]

I used to have this set up but then was told it was bad in the search engine's eyes. So now I have no redirect. Surely the search engines can't think www and non www are separate pages and would punish for dup content.

[incrediblehelp]

Originally Posted by jackson992

I used to have this set up but then was told it was bad in the search engine's eyes. So now I have no redirect. Surely the search engines can't think www and non www are separate pages and would punish for dup content.

Sure they can think are both seperate, because they could be.

Now as for dupliucate content on the same website, I do not feel they punish your website, rather they pick one to show and not the other.

[cyanide]

Originally Posted by ran

Hi,Scanmonkey & Cyanide,
Thanks! for reply.
I have a good (PR7) for non www domain-name and PR-Zero for www.domain-name.
I would like to use www.domain-name as a domain name in future.
Does this make any sence to use 301 redirect to point to www.url at this stage or will it impact on current PR?
regards
Ran

Since you have pr for the non-ww version, then It would make sense to forward to that one... that's what i would do anyway...

[scanmonkey]

Originally Posted by cyanide

Since you have pr for the non-ww version, then It would make sense to forward to that one... that's what i would do anyway...

Makes sense to me.

[jackson992]

Here's a strange occurenece. If you look at the cache for one version of my homepage it shows October but another of the same pages shows late March.