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Old Jun 7th, 2007, 12:09
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Google PR Case sensitive?

Google says they ignore URL cases but check this out:
http://www.weclearjunk.com/house-clearance-london.htm - PR5
http://www.weclearjunk.com/House-Clearance-London.htm - No PR

Is this a google toolbar problem, or are URLs now being treated as case sensitive?
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Old Jun 10th, 2007, 11:28
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Re: Google PR Case sensitive?

Anyone?
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Re: Google PR Case sensitive?

Hmmm very strange, shouldn't be case sensitive but found that with my old site too and never got a clear answer from anyone....Anyone?!?
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Old Jun 10th, 2007, 16:06
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Re: Google PR Case sensitive?

my toolbar says there the same page rank
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Old Jun 10th, 2007, 17:48
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Re: Google PR Case sensitive?

I changed my CMS. It now forces all URLs to be in lowercase.

Note how...
http://www.weclearjunk.com/HOUSE-CLEARANCE-LONDON.htm - No PR
http://www.weclearjunk.com/House-Clearance-London.htm - No PR
http://www.weclearjunk.com/hOUSE-ClEaRance-LonDon.htm - No PR
...all redirect to...
http://www.weclearjunk.com/house-clearance-london.htm - PR 5
(check your address bar)

The question is, is the Google toolbar case sensitive, or does Google treat all URLs this way? (I didn't want to risk it so I updated my systems)
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Re: Google PR Case sensitive?

why would you want the urls in caps any way
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Re: Google PR Case sensitive?

Odd. this.html and This.html are two different files, so I would say a good redirect is in order to a single filename.
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Re: Google PR Case sensitive?

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why would you want the urls in caps any way
It looks nicer in my opinion, but that's besides the point.
I don't care whether they're capitalized, lowercase or uppercase, as long as there are no duplicate URLs on my website.
If Google's PR is case sensitive, linking to the same page with different text case could cause duplicate content to be indexed for your website.

I know some operating systems have case-sensitive file names, but this has never been the case of websites...
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Re: Google PR Case sensitive?

Google PR is case sensitive.

I've posted an article about this on my blog:
http://fyneworks.blogspot.com/2007/0...sensitive.html
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