PR for mysite.com

vs. www.mysite.com?

[Longhaired Genius]

I've just got a link from the BBC (Yay!). Unfortunately they've linked to h*tp://mysite.com instead of h*tp://www.mysite.com

The link works ok but I wonder if the pagerank will be added to the existing pagerank or whether this opens a separate "pagerank account" for h*tp://mysite.com?

Does anyone know/have an opinion?

[Traveler]

Our experience shows that
[mysite.com...]
and
[mysite.com...] are seen as different pages

We have experienced checking
link:http://mysite.com
returns No Results in G

Then trying
link:http://www.mysite.com
and finding our links

The 2nd page may be filtered as a duplicate page, and (if our analysis of a problem is correct) could actually cause page duplication problems, possibly leading to LOWER PR or banning by Google. (Sound ridiculous, but happenened to us a few months ago)

Interested to hear other experiences with this issue. We could have misread what happened to us...

[Brian]

I get exactly the same link result on both. I worried about this one once, since I always omit the www, but came to the conclusion that it makes no difference to the effect of my links. I believe this is one to forget about, but I'm open to being corrected.

[John_Creed]

Not sure what the answer to your question is.

But it's best to *not* use the "WWW".