Inbound Links - full url for max pagerank?

[rshea]

Hi All,
I've put up a new site about a month ago and have recently received an inbound link from a PR5 page however the link reads 'http://www.myurl.com/' rather than 'http://www.myurl.com/default.asp'. Will my 'default.asp' page lose possible Google PR due to the fact that is not specifically mentioned in the link?

Thanks,

Rick

[Susanne]

No.

[Shakil]

Susanne is right, NO is the answer

obviously a better anchor text would have been "keyword" or "buy keyword" but url alone will help achieve the objective.

Shak

[xlcus]

however the link reads 'http://www.myurl.com/' rather than 'http://www.myurl.com/default.asp'

Do you mean the anchor text is 'http://www.myurl.com/' or that it's a link to 'http://www.myurl.com/'?

[rshea]

Thanks Susanne and Shakil. Succinct and to the point!

Rick

[rshea]

Xlcus,
No the Anchor text is the name of the site. It was the actual link that I was worried about since it didn't specifically state 'default.asp'.

Thanks

[xlcus]

It was the actual link that I was worried about since it didn't specifically state 'default.asp'

I may be wrong, but I think that Google will treat http://www.myurl.com/default.asp and http://www.myurl.com/ differently.

I have a site... http://myusername.com/ with PR 5, but http://myusername.com/index.php only has PR 4.

[MCookie]

In Google's SERP I've seen this:

1. www.domain.com/
2. www.domain.com/index.html

Same page. So, although I don't understand, there is a difference.

[jamesyap]

Many people are arguing whether

www.yoursite.com/ is same as www.yoursite.com/default.html

I think both are treaten differently by google, from my experience.

just as

yoursite.com is different with www.yoursite.com

When you type a domain without specifying the page - www.yoursite.com/ your server is configure to look for a default page to server, which at your case is the default.asp file. Default file can be a lot of them, I use index.php, while most people use index.htm and index.html. Some also use default.html, default.php ...

How google know which default file is your server using? Might it be default.asp, or it should be index.php? So it won't mapped either of them to www.yoursite.com/ both are different page.

To avoid this, never have a url end with default.asp (and other default pages) Stick to www.yourname.com/ or if it is subdirectory, stick to www.yourname.com/subdir/