Weird PR greybar behaviour on site root

[TheWhippinpost]

Just thought I'd check out one of me sites' PR

Accessing www.my-domain-name.com/ = PR0 <--gulp, now I know how people feel!

Accessing www.my-domain-name.com/index.htm = Normal PR value!

What's that all about then?...or have I just exposed myself as hugely ignorant of a commonly known fact?!

[Brett_Tabke]

Welcome to the dupe content penalty.

It works this way:

First page found = good standar pr.
Second page found and is a duplicate of the first page? Hmmm = nuke it. Often pr0'd.

[onfire]

HI TheWhippinpost

Yep just picked up on this myself on Friday

www.my-domain-name.com/ Grey

www.my-domain-name.com/index.htm PRx

I did not realise they would be treated as 2 different pages, as the home page is the index page and when your linking all the other pages back to the Home page I just selected the index page.

Oh well live & learn!

Anyway went through all the site and change them all to

www.my-domain-name.com/

now the grey bar is gone and its showing PR again.

My Question why has it taken so long to come up, my site has been up since April 2003

[TheWhippinpost]

Thanks Brett/onfire

My Question why has it taken so long to come up

Precisely what I was going to ask!

So, looks like I've got meself a few exciting hours of link editing ahead...great!

[keyplyr]

It's more likely that you're experiencing a Google cache issue. When you get the gray bar, hit "Ctrl" and "N" to bring up a new window. If the new window shows PR for the same page, you're safe.