Heres a good question that i haven't found an answer for.

how come http://imguploads.net gets a pagerank of 0

and

http://www.imguploads.net get a pagerank of 4?

and what if anything can I do to make http://imguploads.net get the same page rank as the other?

Cheers

It's a pretty common situation, and first off it's not necessarily a problem if your real concern is rankings, as opposed to a pointless obsession with the PageRank number shown on the toolbar. :)

It's only a ranking problem if both urls are listed at Google as if they are separate pages. You can check that by doing an allinurl: search for your domain.

Google goes through a process they call "canonicalization," which essentially is the identification of the best url when there are several choices. Dealing with the "www vs. non-www" difference is only one aspect of canonicalization; other issues include handling urls containing session IDs, whether there's a trailing slash or not, etc.

To help make sure that your URLs get handled correctly you can do a couple of things. One is to make sure that you only use one url, without variation, for each individual page when linking within your own site... and from any other sites you control. Next, do what you can to get any sites linking to you to use the same url. And, you can use a 301 permanent redirect to direct any requests for an "incorrect" version to the "correct" one. Google should also note this redirect, in case they are using more than one url, and effectively merge the listings.

In regards to redirecting all external links to a 'common' format (eg: www.imguploads.net) the easiest way to acheive this is to make use of apache's mod_rewrite facility and add the following to your .htaccess file.


RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^imguploads\.net [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.imguploads.net/$1 [R=301,L]


This will force all requests to http://imguploads.net to be redirected to http://www/imguploads.net

If you're on a Windows server you'll need to look into something like ISAPI_Rewrite

Thanks, Loon, that's what I was referring to in recommending a 301 permanent redirect... so explaining how to do it would have been a good addition. :)

Interesting... Thanks for the detailed information Jay and thanks for the redirect Loon. Yah I like the pagerank number but i just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong on my end to cause that.

I will be going over my site now to make sure everything is consistant.

Much Regards