VERY strange Google results

[BrianK]

In using the Google toolbar to determine the PR value for my website, I've notice a strange phenomenon. We receive a PR of 5/10 for <> but 0/10 for <>. We're using IIS4.0and have set index.cfm to be the only default page for this web process. Any thoughts on this weird one? Other companies do not seem to have this problem. For example, [cj.com...] and [cj.com...] both yield the same PR as expected. What gives Google? Any help/insight would be greatly appreciated.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 7:09 pm (utc) on Nov. 25, 2002]
[edit reason] no urls please - see charter and tos [/edit]

[Brett_Tabke]

If you do cj/ the page that comes up is cj/index. Google can spot that.

Do your domain.com/ and domain.com/realfilename.htm match?

[BrianK]

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure I understand your response. In looking at my original posting though I see a reason for some confusion. My site URL's did not post correctly. So, to recap a bit, "http://www.example.com" gets a 0/10 PR but "http://www.example.com/index.cfm" gets a 5/10 PR. So, if I understand your answer correctly, yes, I believe the names match. I've configures IIS4.0 to use index.cfm as the only "default document."

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 4:44 pm (utc) on Nov. 26, 2002]

[EliteWeb]

Do you see he edited your post for URL's the first time around? In anycase I have seen this happen for my sites also. The only thing I can tell is how I link to my own pages. ie: all thoughout the site the 'homepage' button goes to index.xxx rather than / - now this will change over time when you build up more link backs and ways you link your site im sure.

[Brett_Tabke]

Yes, we try to stay away from specific examples (per charter/tos) - gets into problems.

Anyway, yes - google is seeing your pages as two completely different. It can't deduce (because of the way the iis is configured) that index.cfm is indeed the same page returned as "http://www.example.com/"

So, what is happening, is that it is seeing index.cfm as a duplicate page and the duplicate gets a minor "penalty" for being a duplicate.