Domain redirects to index page.

How does Google handle this when calculating PR?

[crobb305]

My main url [mysite.com...] redirects to index page [mysite.com...]

I don't know why Verisign does this but I am concerned it will affect my PR. All of my incoming links are to the main url. But, I do have a couple of inbound links to the index page.

Will Google merge everything together under the main url? Will my PR suffer? Should I move my site elsewhere to stop this redirect?

Thanks!

[Marcia]

crobb, it's unlikely there will be any problem at all, it's not uncommon for links to point to the domain.com/ and internal links to go to index.html or for a combination. I show 116 backlinks for www.domain.com and the identical count with index.html and I've never seen it otherwise, though there can be something with or without the www. There shouldn't be any PR issue with it.

I'm not sure what you mean by Verisign redirecting it, don't you just enter your nameserver info or do they have something to do with your hosting? And can it have anything to do with how the server you're on handles it?

What I'm wondering is what would happen if your main page was index.htm instead of index.html - that makes a difference.

[crobb305]

Marcia

My site is a "websites by Verisign". I buy the domain/website package and build it live. This is the first time I have tried building a site this way and wanted to see if it would be easier. When you call up the domain [mydomain.com...] versign automatically redirects to [mydomain.com...] And it is .htm not .html

I emailed them and they claim there is nothing they can do which is silly. But at any rate I am stuck with it and I am not sure if this redirect will affect the PR of my main URL as that is where most of my incoming links are to.

Thanks

[Marcia]

It shouldn't at all.

[amanda21]

What if www.mydomain.com and all pages under it automatically redirected to www.anotherdomain.com/mydomain/ (server redirect - not scripted)?

The www.mydomain.com site is already in google with a handful of good incoming links, am I right in thinking that when google respiders it the site will be listed under www.anotherdomain.com/mydomain/ and loose its current pr?

Also, the www.anotherdomain.com/mydomain/ site is on a secure server and ie throws up a security alert when you enter the site, will this affect google spidering it?

Thanks