onfire - 4:04 pm on Oct 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

Not sure if its not rated or just seen a duplicate content, hence the grey bar

I know a few have said it did not matter in that google now treated / & index.html as the same

All was well for about 8 weeks from the site getting its first ever PR, and then suddenly this grey bar kept appearing and all i could see was that on my site there was a mix (newbee webmaster that i am) of www.domain.com/index.html & www.domain.com/ and after taking advice from a friend i made the changes and it worked and the changes happened pretty quickly, the site gets crawled daily which might have helped the change process.

How old is the site?
inbound links where do they go to www.domain.com/index.html or www.domain.com/?

if its a newish like mine and its only just had PR in last 2 months, then i would say its the same problem i had, and i chose to put all my internal links to my home page from www.domain.com/index.html to www.domain.com/ as this would be the same for all my inbound links which is how PR is calculated along with the Anchor text of course.

Whatever changes you decide to make will of course take some time to show, WaitWaitWait