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  • webbutler13
    webbutler13 last edited by Jan 21, 2014, 4:33 PM

    I want to forward all urls to http:www.mysite.com but am a little confuse because I am getting duplicate content error:

    Pages with Duplicate Page Content

    as of Jan 15http://titanappliancerepair.com/ 1 duplicatehttp://titanappliancerepair.com 1 duplicatehttp://titanappliancerepair.com/index.html 1 duplicate*****************************************************************What should I put ion htaccess file so I can forwardhttp://titanappliancerepair.com/index.htmlhttp://titanappliancerepair.comhttp://titanappliancerepair.com/to  http://www.titanappliancerepair.comor what is the correct way to do it?I'm confused because when I enter http://titanappliancerepair.com/ in browser it showshttp://titanappliancerepair.com so how can it be considered duplicate content?.Can someone help?I have godaddy and they have gave me this code to put RewriteEngine on
    rewritecond %{http_host} ^coolexample.com [nc]
    rewriterule ^(.
    )$ http://www.coolexample.com/$1 [r=301,nc]What is correct?

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    • MickEdwards
      MickEdwards @webbutler13 last edited by Jan 21, 2014, 6:21 PM Jan 21, 2014, 6:21 PM

      your directories have duplication.  For example: http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/about-us.html and http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/about-us

      You may also need   RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301**,**L]

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      • webbutler13
        webbutler13 last edited by Jan 21, 2014, 4:53 PM Jan 21, 2014, 4:53 PM

        Ok I have added this to htaccess file and everything seems to be redirecting in browser ok but is it good enough for google?

        Can someone check and tell me if it is correct , if not can you help with code? Thanks in advance!

        RewriteEngine on
        rewritecond %{http_host} ^titanappliancerepair.com [nc]
        rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

        RewriteEngine on
        rewritecond %{http_host} ^titanappliancerepair.com/ [nc]
        rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

        RewriteEngine on
        rewritecond %{http_host} ^titanappliancerepair.com/index.html [nc]
        rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteBase /

        redirect html pages to the root domain

        rewriterule ^index.html$ / [r=301,nc]

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        • MickEdwards
          MickEdwards last edited by Jan 21, 2014, 4:42 PM Jan 21, 2014, 4:42 PM

          It looks like you are redirecting any URL back to itself.

          You want something like this which will remove index.html and enforce a trailing slash-

          RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

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          • webbutler13
            webbutler13 last edited by Jan 21, 2014, 4:42 PM Jan 21, 2014, 4:42 PM

            This is what I have so far in htaccess file

            RewriteEngine on
            rewritecond %{http_host} ^titanappliancerepair.com [nc]
            rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

            RewriteEngine on
            rewritecond %{http_host} ^coolexample.com/ [nc]
            rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

            RewriteEngine on
            rewritecond %{http_host} ^coolexample.com/index.html [nc]
            rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

            RewriteEngine on
            rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.titanappliancerepair.com/index.html [nc]
            rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

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