I am worried....

its wierd that www.mysite.com has 3pr and www.mysite.com/index.php has no pr. so I i was just wonder if google will thing these as two pages and and is there any possiblity that i get duplicate content plenty?

 

They dont give you a duplicate penalty for something on the same domain.

 

Hmm, surprised this is happening.

Matt Cutts spoke about this sort of thing on his blog and said they were able to figure this stuff out. He was talking about www.example.com versus example.com as well. Maybe the pr was just mixed up or something....

You might find something on his site and you could post a comment asking. He seems pretty accomodating...

but as phoenixcarpet said, they are unlikely to penalise for the same domain.

thomas

 

you can make a redirect, so your site/index.php will redirect to site/ (htaccess)

 

how should i do that? is playing with htaccess file safe?

 

An easy way to remedy this issue is to ensure that all links point to yourdomain(dot)com/ and not your domain(dot)com/index.php

This happened to me as well, and although it does correct itself, it is best to have your aggragate page rank on a single page rather than spread out between the one that the search engines first time adn the one that they are redirected to upon finding internal links within your site.

 

this is the .htaccess you should have in order to avoid any problems with search engines:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ http://www\.domain\.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Code (markup):

(if this doesn work, try adding "Options +FollowSymLinks" without quotations before the "RewriteEngine On" rule)

it should work like this: http://domain.com and anything after it, http://domain.com/index.php, http://www.domain.com/index.php and http://WWW.DOMAIN.COM all lead to http://www.domain.com

 

I'm would'nt be to sure of that. In the past my employer wanted to be found in the SE's with the search phrase 'keyword + city' where city can be seen a any city in my country (no cloaking or what soever, pages where availible for our visitors).

I've created about 20 pages with almost the same text on it except the cities would change. I've dominaded google for about 4 months with these phrases. Then I've got a (duplicate) penalty and the pages did'nt show up in the SRP's anymore. (only those pages with the duplicated text, for my other keywords and phrases it did'nt have any effect (still in the top 10).

So you could get a duplicate penalty if you do it to much I think.

 

Is the order the options important ?

Is
[NC,L,R=301]
the same as:
[L,NC,R=301]
or
[R=301,NC,L]
Thanks,
Christophe