pagerank distribution

dynamic urls and their relationship with pagerank

[herbacious]

currently trying to create a static frontpage for an online music shop based in the UK.

have done a fair bit of link popularity work and have managed to get the pagerank as indicated in the toolbar up to 4/10 (not great but hey)

in designing the page i am trying to create some sort of outbound link structure that is going to give a few pages a reasonable share of this pagerank

however, the page has many links to areas of the site,

the question is - if the link is along the lines of www.dadadad.net?something=value

will that sort of loop the pagerank back to adadadada.net

ie will google pay attention to the stuff after the question mark or will it just regard it as loads of links to the root domain name?

(this would be good, cos then i can have a few chosen normal links which can share the pagerank)

thanks 4 your help :-)

[takagi]

Hello herbacious, welcome to WebmasterWorld.

I don't recall seeing an URL with a question mark immediately after the tld (top level domain; in your example the ".net"). Usually a dynamic URL is like

www.mydomain.com/directory1/mypage.php?something=value

or

www.mydomain.com/mypage.php?something=value

For Google is a page a page if the URL is unique. Even if the part before the question mark is the same. And each page has a pagerank.

Try a search for inurl:php.id [google.com] and you will see Google has indexed some 1.4 million pages with a URL like

....<filename>.php?id=<value>....

[herbacious]

yeah sorry i mean dadad.net/index.php?something=value

cheers tho - that answered my question :-)

not what i wanted to hear unfortunatley but there you go

thanks for the response