Google is treating these as 2 completely different pages and ranking them separately.
I started investigating to determine a solution to this. I've found that there are over 400 references to default.asp in the forum code. My gut reaction is to ask why these references aren't to StrForumUrl? This would solve the problem because my StrForumUrl is http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/ which would match 95% of the external links and consolidate the PageRank. Those who wanted to link to default.asp could still do so in the admin options if they wish.
So my projected solution right now is to go through and change all these references to StrForumUrl.
Of course I may be just talking out my butt and there may be extremely good reasons to do it the way it's done. If this is the case don't get mad at me.
Now the plot thickens. It seems that the powers that be here, have figured out a solution to this as default.asp has no PageRank and the folder URL has it all, even though the internal links still go to default.asp.
One reason I could think is for staying logged in issues. Linking to default.asp maintains the same www.site.com/default.asp or site.asp/default.asp string. Example. If you link someone who is logged in on the www form of the url to a page on the non www url then they will view the page as logged out. This is even mor eimportant is you require users to be logged in to view pages and or hidden forums. I think to preserve the sanity of users they did it this way to keep everyone on the initial url of access. Maybe I didn't make sense just now but do you get the picture? btw, how do you find out your page rank? TY
If you don't specify to what page you're redirecting, default.asp will be used by default by IIS, so you're saying doesn't make much sense to me, weeweeslap. Redirecting to the forum URL will always give you the correct behavior.
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Posted - 28 December 2007 : 10:41:13
btw, how do you find out your page rank?
