PankRank differs depending on route

[NewStandard]

I was doing some investigation into the PageRanks of my site, and if I clicked directly from a Google search to my site the PankRank would be 3. However, if I opened that same page in a new window, the PageRank would be 6. The URLs of the two pages were exactly the same. The only difference was the route taken to get to that page. It was a repeatable difference (i.e. it wasn't just a change in the PageRanks that day).

How / why does something like this happen?

Thanks,

Justin

[dirkz]

Have experienced similar things. Sometimes a reload helps.

[ThomasB]

I had some experiences a few months ago and it looked like a caching-problem of the Toolbar. But, as dirkz said, reloading the site should help.

[thehittmann]

My site is like this everytime I check it. Every day of the week. Even if I clear my cache. Although it is only 1 point different not 3.

[Denis at eVR]

My site's home page is PR8 when it is loaded up as http://www.mysite.com, but only PR2 when it is loaded as http://mysite.com. Is this usual? I've now changed the backlinks to http://mysite.com on about a third of my internal pages (PR 5 to 7) to see if this makes a diffence.

[bignet]

dns-wise example.com and www.example.com are totally different domains. i know they can point to the same address/content

If you want more pagerank, i suggest removing the less-pr host entry, and making sure all links point to your main host.

[Denis at eVR]

Bignet:

Thanks for the advice. All my inward links already point to www. I don't know how to remove or redirect the non-www version, though. My ftp access to the site doesn't identify two versions, just the www one. Do I just have to contact my hosting company and ask them to deal with this?

[dirkz]

> My ftp access to the site doesn't identify two versions, just the www one. Do I just have to contact my hosting company and ask them to deal with this?

Think so. Just did the same with a new hoster I'm not yet familiar with.