Google PageRank Question

www vs. non-www have different PageRank... Why?

[gchapman]

Hello.

I was wondering why some sites show a different page rank for [domainname.com...] vs [domainname.com....] It seems as though there are 4 possible page combinations for a home page that can all have different page rank. For instance www.domain.com, www.domain.com/index.html, domain.com, and domain.com/index.html don't have the same page rank. Could you explain why this is? This is seeming to create a bunch of page rank problems throughout our sites and I am not sure how to fix it. Any help that you could provide would be greatly appreciated! I am at a loss on this one :-)

Thank you sooooo much for your time and help!

[Brett_Tabke]

> why different

because they are different sites.

Yep, www and not www, should return the same page. Or do a redirect from domain.com to www.domain.com.

[plasma]

To be more specific: You should do a "301 Permanently Moved" redirect.

[notsleepy]

Here's the Apache httpd.conf code:

<VirtualHost **.**.**.100>
 ServerName yourdomain.com
 RedirectMatch permanent ^/(.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1
</VirtualHost>