Hi guys, A little confused, just done a backlink check on my site. It says - www.mysite.co.uk - 1915 back links but when i put in - www.mysite.co.uk/index.html - 18,763 Back Links What does this mean is it the same page?
The search engines treat every unique url as a separate page. So even though http://domain.com, http://domain.com/, http://www.domain.com, http://www.domain.com/, http://domain.com/index.html and http://www.domain.com/index.html all display the same content, the search engines are not smart enough to realize that these are all the exact same page. Sometimes this creates duplicate content issues with the search engines. To deal with this you should set up 301 redirects so people can only access each page via one url. If people try to access one of the other urls, you can just redirect them to the preferred url. Once you do this, all links going to your homepage will count towards your one preferred homepage url.
they are the same page. index page is usually the home page of a site and it looks like you built more backlinks for the domain with index file.