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This is the same for every page on the site, eg:
PR 4 for 'www.mysite.com/?sub=webmasterworld-help'
PR 3 for 'www.mysite.com/index.html?sub=webmasterworld-help'
Questions:
1) Is this seen as duplicate content by Google's algo/filters?
2) Are the 2 pages, with different PR, effectively splitting the page rank - ie would it be higher if I did a redirect of some sort?
3) What is the best way to fix this if it is a problem?
Does anyone have any advice and recommendations, please?
The best thing to do is to make sure that every link on your site points to only one of these versions. Generally the directory version is shorter and better.
site.com/ is better than site.com/index.html, especially because you can change technology in the future without losing pagerank or inbound links. site.com/index.php or site.com/index.shtml might make sense in the future, but site.com/ goes to any of these already!
The site has automatic/content manager navigation links - which are of course the index.html variety. This makes it difficult to make all links non index.html.
Does anyone know why the rage rank is different and whether it would be say 5 for one page, instead of 4 & 3 for the respective duplicates?
It's kind of like you create index.htm, index.html, index1.html -- all different files and addresses.
One option is to point all links and ask for incoming links to /index.html versions. If you ever switch content management systems though, you've got a problem.
