Hi there guys and girls My site is osCommerse based. I have already done the redirect from non-www to www. What I have also noticed is that Google has cached my www. mydomain . com/catalog/index.php as well as www . mydomain . com osCommerse automatically loads index.php when you go to the domain as it is my home page.. Due to the fact that google has cached both url's which is the same page Im sure I triggered the duplicate content filter. The problem is that if I were to put a 301 redirect from index.php to mydomain.com it would result in an infinite loop because mydomain.com opens with index.php I haven tried it out yet but this is my logic.. If you agree that the infinite loop would be the result then please direct me in the right direction as to deal with this duplicate content issue of my 2 pages. All I know is that I only need one of these 2 pages and while both are in google's cache my site will continue to suffer Thanx in advance
Search 'Canocical Root' in the osC forums. I asked that question there. However, seach for Chemo/Bobby Eastland's posts here on DP (Search osCommerce) and you'll find the answer. I think the thread was called osCommerce SEO or something to that effect. You can basically set FILENAME_DEFAULT to yoursite.com/ instead of index.
I searched and found a couple of post by Bobby which deals with SEO and osCommerse...Didn't find what I was looking for. I also attempted to change the FILENAME_DEFAULT but it didn't work. Browser throws an error about cant find a file or some other error. Are there no other suggestions that I could attempt.