Google Analytics: / and /index count as two pages

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by petpap, Mar 16, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi!

    I have noticed that my start page is seen as two pages on Google Analytics...

    The first: /
    The second: /index.htm

    Do you think that the page is losing power because of this?

    all links go to /. No internal or external link goes to /index.htm

    Any ideas?

    /petpap
     
    petpap, Mar 16, 2008 IP
  2. Zafar Ahmed

    Zafar Ahmed Active Member

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    what is your actual URL? the main one that you use. You should have one page which is the homepage and it should be without the .index btw.

    How about a 301 redirection?
     
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  3. petpap

    petpap Peon

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    The actual URL is the one in my signature.
    It is a .htm page, but no links point to the htm page, they all point to the root.

    >what is your actual URL? the main one that you use.
    >You should have one >page which is the homepage
    >and it should be without the .index btw.
     
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  4. astup1didiot

    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    You should be 301 redirecting index.htm to / or the other way around. You can insert tracking code variable to your index.htm and / URLs so they are tracked as one with Google Analytics.
     
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  5. petpap

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    When I do a site:www.example.com only the root "/" is indexed, not the "/index.htm". and ALL links go to the root.

    But in Google Analytics both are indexed as two seperate pages
     
    petpap, Mar 17, 2008 IP