Links pointing to both Index.htm and Index.html

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    When using Google's web tools submitting a new sitemap I noticed that when Google crawled my site last that it found over 100 external links pointing to a page that was not found "404 errors".

    On further investigation I found that Google says that several of the external links pointing to my site are pointing to index.htm vers index.html. When I went to the sites that Google said were pointing to the index.htm most are just pointed at www.mydomainname.com with no page specified. Can I create a index.htm page and redirect to the index.html page or is there an easier way?

    Thanks,
     
    mark5022, Nov 13, 2008 IP
  2. Colbyt

    Colbyt Notable Member

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    It would be easier to use the .htaccess file or a cPanel redirect than to create the page. Be sure to make it a permanent (301) redirect.

    Your control panel will just write the .htaccess line for you.
     
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  3. palme

    palme Active Member

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    your ide is very good, i can se 2 good point in that
    - drive lost traffic to your site back
    - correct sitemap wrong
    but i understand also , if you have to index file with htm and html extension, browser select htm like index file
     
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    Can you have both an index.html and an index.htm on your website?
     
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  5. mark5022

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    Unfortunately I am hosting on an IIS server “Yahoo Hosting” and the only redirect is for the entire site. I did find this bit of HTML for redirecting a page.

    <head>
    <title>Your Page Title</title>
    <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com">
    </head>

    I do fear that Google may penalize my site for redirecting the page?
     
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    Yes, you can have both. Someone told me to just copy the index.html file as index.htm but then I would get hit with a duplicate content penalty from Google.
     
    mark5022, Nov 14, 2008 IP