Does domain.com/index need a 301 to just domain.com?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Diablos, Sep 26, 2007.

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    Hey Guys,

    just a simple question, is it advised that I do this as I was thinking the SE may index them as separate pages or do they have auto filters to compensate for this?
     
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    Hi Diablos,

    Yes, you should redirect your index file to the domain root. There have been many documented cases of these being indexed as separate pages.
     
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    Thanks tamecrow :)

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    For anyone else out there I used the following rewrite rule to solve this problem (in .htaccess fo course)
    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.html\ HTTP/
    RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]
     
    Diablos, Sep 26, 2007 IP