link diagnosis- anyone know how to use it?

[G. Lasagne]

I have been having a fiddle with this tool and it seems pretty good, a couple of questions though,

when i used the "site diagnosis" on my own site it said that the home page gasangelheating.co.uk/ was indexed well but the page gasangelheating.co.uk/index.html was NOT indexed well, but they are both the homepage,

is this worth investigating further or is it no big deal? all my link building uses gasangelheating.co.uk, unless its to a specific page?

also what is important the PR and teh strength or just the strength, and what exactly does it mean by strength, is it how useful that link to my site is? it seems to vary on other sites between 2 and 500.

Any tips on this tool?

Dave

[estwig]

You can only have one homepage, so one points to the other, so the page that points to the homepage will not index at all.

[G. Lasagne]

You can only have one homepage, so one points to the other, so the page that points to the homepage will not index at all.

Cheers Kieth, so it wont have a negative effect it just wont be indexed like the homepage?

Thanks

[estwig]

Cheers Kieth, so it wont have a negative effect it just wont be indexed like the homepage?

Thanks

It won't be indexed because there is nothing on the page to index, the page just points to your homepage.


But take this with a pinch of salt, I ain't no SEO God just yet and have been waiting for and would be interested in, someone more knowledgeable correcting me.

[Danny@BFC]

Dave - I know this thread is a little old by UKBF standards but I thought I'd offer my thoughts - like estwig I am no SEO god!

so...

from what I can see, all (well...the majority of 1,506 links to your homepage) of the external links point to gasangelheating.co.uk/

example: your premium listing on centralandunderfloorheating.com/ty points to gasangelheating.co.uk

but from every page on your website your internal links point to gasangelheating.co.uk/index.html

so when google is giving PageRank or whatever it sees that all external links say that your gasangelheating.co.uk page is the most important - but your internal linking says that gasangelheating.co.uk/index.html is the most important therefor not helping your cause.

I have the same problem atm its easily changed and will be done shortly - just thought id share with you as only found this out today - a post by awebapart mentions this and I looked into it....its called canonical or something like that

hope this helps

Danny

[Danny@BFC]

oh and out of interest how long did your dmoz listing take from first submission?

[CaterTrade]

Was Noah doing a bit of woodwork at the time? :P

[G. Lasagne]

hi danny

If your talking about the thingy on webmaster tools where you say which domain you want to take precidence then ive already done it, maybe i havent done it correctly, but i think i have, I dont fully undertsand TBH.

I havent got a clue about the dmoz, probably a few months but thats a guess.

How did you know that every page on my site points to index.html?

Dave

[Danny@BFC]

hi danny

If your talking about the thingy on webmaster tools where you say which domain you want to take precidence then ive already done it, maybe i havent done it correctly, but i think i have, I dont fully undertsand TBH.

I havent got a clue about the dmoz, probably a few months but thats a guess.

How did you know that every page on my site points to index.html?

Dave

I'm in the same boat fella - still learning, I dont mean the webmaster tools bit where you choose "www.yoursite.co.uk" OR "yoursite.co.uk" although yes that is called canonical (not sure how to spell it) althoiugh its similar.

what I mean is, say you are on the "testimonials" page of your site (or any other page of your site apart from the homepage) and you hover your curser over "Home" in your navigation menu, in the bottom left of the browser it tells you where that "Home" link is pointing...and you can see that it points to "www.yourdomain.co.uk/index.html"

so (this is my understanding - ill try and find the original post) your site is saying that www.yourdomain.co.uk/index.html (http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/index.html) is the most important page as all your pages point to it.
but your external links points to www.yourdomain.co.uk (http://www.yourdomain.co.uk) (without the /index.html) so google and the other SE's see 2 pages exactly the same, gets confused as to which is the most important therfore possibly reducing the prominence of both.

I say possibly as I only came across this yesterday and my site is doing the same thing so am still researching it before making the changes.

hope that makes sense - ill try and find the post I saw it for you.

Danny

[Danny@BFC]

found it - first post on page 2 by awebapart - explains it much better than me!

http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=865078

[Birmingham]

I have been having a fiddle with this tool and it seems pretty good, a couple of questions though,

when i used the "site diagnosis" on my own site it said that the home page gasangelheating.co.uk/ was indexed well but the page gasangelheating.co.uk/index.html was NOT indexed well, but they are both the homepage,

is this worth investigating further or is it no big deal? all my link building uses gasangelheating.co.uk, unless its to a specific page?

also what is important the PR and teh strength or just the strength, and what exactly does it mean by strength, is it how useful that link to my site is? it seems to vary on other sites between 2 and 500.

Any tips on this tool?

Dave


can you give a link to the tool so i can be sure what tool you're referring to?

with regards to the different versions of the same page, try to pick a single version (usually best if it's the shortest URL) and always link to that. this way your PR is not divided between URLs.

not sure what u mean by strength... could be anything... maybe i will understand if u share the link to the tool.