Google Confirmed index.html issue

Google has confirmed that there is no problem with index.html, index.php or index.asp or any other extension with the your website home page. It will treat both
yourwebsite.com and yourwebsite.com/index.html same

 

where is the source of this information???

 

I never thought it might be a problem.

People just need to use good link architecture.

 

i don't agree with you...it's a problem...i have seen different PR for both of the URLs

 

The problem is there if the Page Rank of your homepage and index.html, index.php or index.asp pages are different. You need to add a canonical tag to your index.html, index.php or index.asp pages. The canonical tag information is available in Google's Official Blogspot as well as Matt Cutts blog.

 

As I know, Google treats both pages as different pages and considers Duplicate content.

In fact, u can find both the pages in Google Analytics as / and /index.html in content overview. You can set both pages are same in the Analytics settings.

When u gain PR also, it is an issue. In fact, all the people will direct http://www.xyz.com/index.html,
http://www.xyz.com,
http://xyz.com/,
http://xyz.com,

to http://www.xyz.xom/

then it will not detects as different ans all will be treated as only one.

Canonical is different, when we use duplicate content in our site we have to use the canonical.

 

Then the problem is how you have your website setup.

you should always have, index.php, index.htm, index.html etc redirect to the root domain or directory. If you don't do this then you are creating the duplicate content.

So as people have posted above, there is no information in your thread.

 

Have you just gone through the matt cutts blog about the canonical link tag ? I have read it and I just came to know that we should use this tag if same content is in multiple pages of same domain. This tag is most useful for e-commerce websites.

 

Remove index.html from sitemap.xml
Don't mix with Canonical issue.

 

I guess there is no problem with
Index.html, or index.php

 

Removing a page from sitemap will not stop search engines from Crawling as well as indexing that webpage. You need to disallow/block that webpage in your robots.txt file. I don't think most webmaster as well as SEO's are doing that at this point of time.

 

I happen to think that it does make a difference in PR in spite of Google’s confirming otherwise. I think may be there is a difference in the way of crawling or indexing…

 

I always thought that backlink structure is what counts..

If all back links to ur domain are written with ..index.php and pointing to your
domain.com/index.php, there should be no worries.

The wrong way would be linking to ur index.php site without the index.php in ur back links...

 

Yeah I never even considered this, if its true, good news, lol.

 

It was never a problem you just have to decide which one to use and which one to build links for. I prefer domain.com and I always make sure all the in site links and off site links are going only to domain.com if you prefer you can do it the other way around for index.html.

 

I know, we use canonical for duplicate content pages to get same priority as the main content page.

 

Hello,

When u setup a site, u can't use index.html, index.php both. U can use only one index page, it may php or html ot aspx or asp.

And i said to redirect all the url's to main http://www.xyz.com/ else, Google will recognize all the other url's:

http://www.xyz.com/index.html,
http://www.xyz.com,
http://xyz.com/,
http://xyz.com,

as duplicate content pages, and u will negative impact in front of search engines.

 

You can have a 301 permanent redirect between http://www.xyz.com/ and
xyz.com. The other issue index.html, index.php or default.aspx can be solved by using a canonical meta tag.


<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com" />

 

Canonical meta tag is to use for Duplicate content pages. We use Canonical pages, then it is saying that these all are different pages. But, these all are only 1 page but Google describing as different.
In fact, we have to redirect all them to one http//)www(dot)example(dot)com

 

no any problem index.html and page r same to home page bcz we get only one name for home page