How best to deal with www.home.com and www.home.com/index.html
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Firstly, this is for an .asp site - and all my usual ways of fixing this (e.g. via htaccess) don't seem to work.
I'm working on a site which has www.home.com and www.home.com/index.html - both URL's resolve to the same page/content.
If I simply drop a rel canonical into the page, will this solve my dupe content woes?
The canonical tag would then appear in both www.home.com and www.home.com/index.html cases.
If the above is Ok, which version should I be going with?
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Thanks in advance folks,
James @ Creatomatic -
Or another possible solution would be to create a 301 redirect for
Would be the preferred method, if not available then use the Canonical option.
Here is a great SEOMoz blog post
Here is a quote pertaining to your issue:
"Multiple Versions of the Homepage
This is another common mistake. Potentially a homepage URL could be access through the following means, depending on how it has been built -
http://seomoz.org
http://www.seomoz.org/home.html
http://www.seomoz.org/index.htmlIf the homepage can be accessed via these type of URLs, they should 301 to the correct URL which in this case would be www.seomoz.org.
Quick caveat - the only exception would be if these multiple versions of the homepage served a unique purpose, such as being shown to users who are logged in or have cookies dropped. In this case, you'd be better to use rel=canonical instead of a 301."
Hope it helps.
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Many thanks Istvan - I'll give that a try.
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Hi James,
If you will have the on both of the pages it should do the trick.
Or another possible solution would be to create a 301 redirect for www.home.com/index.html -> www.home.com/
Beware if you use both redirect and canonical have the same link there.
I have seen infinite loops created with canonical and 301 created for search engines. Canonical was pointing to the "/" version and the redirect was with the non - "/".
I hope this helps.
greetings,
Istvan
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