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When liking to index.htm I might fill that page with specific keyywords in url and page.
Will Goggle see /index.htm as a page equal like any other page?
Or will I get some benefit from a naming similar as the index.html
Sometimes Google is showing in the listing 2 pages from a site:
Central Homepage
[mysite...]
Keyword Page
[mysite...]
I am interest to understand why Google is showing 2 entries from the same website.
Thanks a lot, Maggi
Presumably you could have index.htm and index.html with completely different keywords and link to index.html from other pages in your site but have other sites link to your index.htm page.
Perhaps Google gives them an equal PR in which case quickly put up a default.htm :-)
I asume, that 1 and 2 are identical seen by Google
Assuming that 1 and 2 have the same content, Google normally doesn't distinguish between them. You can verify this by comparing link:www.mysite.com with link:www.mysite.com/index.html. If the same results are shown, Google treats these pages as the same page and PR is added. Otherwise, PR as well as anchor text is splitted between the two pages.
In any case, linking only to www.mysite.com is the safe way.
Will Goggle see /index.htm as a page equal like any other page?
Or will I get some benefit from a naming similar as the index.html
There is no benefit for index.htm. It is handled as any other page.
Gus
You should always stick to one and the one that is best is www.yoursite.com/. Try to avoid linking to index.html or index.htm, even in your site itself. In your site, use <a href="/"> instead of <a href="index.html">.
You can do a 301 redirect to tell Google they are all the same. Use .htaccess to rewrite your URL from anything ELSE (index.htm, index.html ...) to www.yoursite.com/.
You should always stick to one and the one that is best is www.yoursite.com/. Try to avoid linking to index.html or index.htm, even in your site itself. In your site, use <a href="/"> instead of <a href="index.html">.
Of course, this is the safe way. However, for none of my sites I have a problem linking to the index page. In all of these cases, Google doesn't distinguish between www.mysite.com, mysite.com, www.mysite.com/index.html. Moreover, one of my sites is reachable via www.mysite.com and www.mysite.de. Even in this case, Google doesn't distinguish between them, i.e. link:www.mysite.com shows the same results as link:www.mysite.de (and they have the same PR). Unfortunately, this doesn't work always.
/
/index.htm
/index.html
as different pages TOTALLY depends on your web server settings. it is easy to set it up so that on / request it will respond with /index.txt page.
i don't know how Google treats these 3 pages, but probably as 3 different pages. and also, probably, they have each their own PR.
[edited by: engine at 7:49 am (utc) on Aug. 1, 2003]
[edit reason] No sigs, thanks. See TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^fully\.qualified\.domain\.name [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^$
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}!^80$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) [fully.qualified.domain.name:%{SERVER_PORT}...] [L,R]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^fully\.qualified\.domain\.name [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) [fully.qualified.domain.name...] [L,R]
It is working,
but now the images are not shown, due to
[domain.com...]
Do I have to change all images to
[domain.com...]
Thanks, Maggi
It's no more than a server setting - tell the server which type of file it must show when you request www.example.com or any subdirectory or subdomain, and it will do so.
For linking purposes, avoid including "index.(s)htm(l)" or "default.(s)htm(l)", just cut the link at the "/". That way, your links will not become obsolete when you decide to go from ASP to PHP or HTML, or PERL or whatever.
/claus
maggi: a search engine has no way to determine what pages make a site and what ones are another site. It is usually confused the term site with the term domain, but they are not the same: a site can espand many domains, like:
www.mysite.com
www.mysite.uk (for england)
www.mysite.es (for spain)
mail.mysite.com (it could be a mail service)
mail.mysite.uk
and we could continue. And then, there are opposite cases: sites placed in subdomains. It normally happens in free hosting services: the user gets some megs freely to "hang" her/his personal webpage and an address that is a subdomain or a subdir of the hosters' domain.
Since google has no way to know if two or more pages of the same domain are really part of the same site, it has to give all the results. Even so, when two or more matches are found from the same domain, there only appear two: the most relevant one and the root of the domain. Then is displayed a link to get more results from that site.
Of course, it would be better if g was able to determine a site limit, but even so, i think that google has find a good solution :)
regards,
herenvardo
However, consider the below, it's true:
I have an index.htm. Type in mysite.com/ and it takes you to index.htm and it's got a Google PR of 6.
If I put up a new page called index.html and create one link to it from within mysite.com Google picks it up and Index.html soon gets a PR of 6, even though it has different content and only one link from a PR5 page.
If I then put up a page called default.htm with yet another set of keywords and different content that page too gets an almost immediate PR of 6.
In the interim people typing mysite.com/ still get to index.htm
So you can "leverage" the PR of your homepage by adding other "default" type home pages like index.html, index.htm and default.htm?
Or am I completely wrong on this?
If I put up a new page called index.html and create one link to it from within mysite.com Google picks it up and Index.html soon gets a PR of 6, even though it has different content and only one link from a PR5 page.
It's an estimated - and not a real - PR.
"less" than the PR of the page that is linking to it
As far as I know (I never exanmined this in detail), guessed PR was calculated just from the PR of the domain and not from the page that is linking to it.
I did a little experiment: On one of my PR6 sites with an index.html (default) page I created an (orphan) index.htm page. It's got immediately PR6. Thus it's an estimated PR.
From dominic it's common to see white/grey bar for pages not indexed, I don't know if estimated pr is currently used.
Yes, in general that's true. However, this seems to be an exception.
I believe that is true only if the page is one folder level lower than the main page.
