watchonline2468
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Hi,I've noticed a lot of site's header graphics link to http://www.whateverthesitesnameis.html instead of just index.html. does this help PR or something? also, If you do that on all of your pages and some of them don't have any content except for a single image, could that be bad for PR?Thanks, MattNot sure if I understand what your asking but I think you want to know if it matters if you link to http://www.domain.com or http://www.domain.com/index.htm. Search engines will view these as different pages even though they take you to the same place....most of the time This can have a negitave effect on you PR. It will split the PR of the page in half. It's best when refering to your index page to link to it as http://www.domain.com...on the other hand you might be asking about referring to an interior page: i.e. - http://www.domain.com/mypage.htm or just mypage.htm...in this case there is no difference. Both references will take you to the same page and the http://www.domain.com is implied when you link to mypage.htm.As for the blank pages their PR will not be affected by empty content. PR only has to do with links pointing to the page. Content will never affect PR it will only affect your ranking for keywords and phrases. Content and PR are viewed/calculated seperately by the se's....but they both play a factor in ranking so you need to have both to rank well. You also need to have good anchor text in the links pointing to your site. The anchor text should contain the keywords or phrases that you want to be found by in the serps.I over looked the graphics part of your question...when linking using a graphic use an alt tag in place of anchor text...this will allow you to add keyphrases to the link to give it relevance....the links pointing back to the home page will have a good affect on PR provided they are link to fomr other pages and hove some PR...and a good affect on rankings if you use keyword rich alt tags.Matt_M_ wrote:http://www.domain.com and http://www.domain.com/index.htm will be counted as two different pages so have all your links point to one of them, preferably the http://www.domain.com.I think musik is probably closer to guessing the correct question I thought Matt_M_ was asking is it better to use the full URL (http://www.site.com/index.html) over just using the filename (index.html).I disagree with the answer given ....Quote:I think it's more a case of better to use the full URL instead of just index.htm as it's better for the robots searching the page - at least this is what I am told by SEO experts. This is what vetofunk told me when helping me with a website:Home Button - A mistake many make, is where the Home Button links to. You need to loose the "/index.htm" at the end because we want all your PR to point to http://www.domain.comExactly, I find many sites that link to index.htm and then get many of their backlinks going there. If they would have all links directing to just http://www.domain.com instead of the index.htm you can concentrate your Pagerank on one page instead of multiple pages."This is false as link addresses are not indexed as body text." ... I think yahoo might be giving some weight to this...so if it's a case of google ignoring it...or not penalizing for it and other search engines as using it why not include the full path to the page....and for the index page use the domain only.any examples of a site where the http://www.blah.xom has a diferent PR to http://www.blash.com/index.html ?Ive never looked into this - quite interesting.....here is one example http://www.viva-almeria.com/vshttp://www.viva-almeria.com/index.phpI notice thats .php - anyone got a .html one?sorry cant find any with .html ..Wow...some of the sites that use to show different pr's (http://www.domain.com vs http://www.domain.com/index.html), are now showing the same, including a few of my own. I am no longer seeing the change the way I use to.yeah same here. the next thing you know, webpronews pple are gonna spam me about this too.