SEO/Google PR question
 

Does it matter if people link website.com vs. website.com/index.html ? Is one better to link than the other?

I think the anchor text is more important

No but it makes a difference if you use www.thehun.net and thehun.net

0 pagerank for no www
6 pagerank for www

gofuckyourself.com is pr 0
www.gofuckyourself.com is pagerank 6

sometimes its 3 for no www and 0 for www if you manually type it ? strange , i never noticed that before

wtf it keeps changing

yes it does matter.

can someone please explain what exactely is the "anchor text" ?

noticed that on one of my site where i linked to the non www

This will give you an idea... http://xbiz.com/articles/index.php?article_idp=645

Fairly informative , but it doesn't explain enough.

If anyone else has another link with some more info , it would be very helpfull in explaining the discrepancies noted above.

When you request link trades its important to decide the url you want people to link to you by and stick to it. There's been examples where the PR is no different for a domain with and without the www. There's also examples that disprove this. I have found that if you have a high PR (5+) then Google is able to make the association that it's all the same site but this isn't always true.

Same goes for the html page or just the directory. Pick a url to use and don't change it or your efforts will be in vain.

WG