Seo Tip for : Common Canonical Homepage Issue

Seo Tip for : Common Canonical Homepage Issue


Bad
http://www.abcdexamplesite.com
http://abcdexamplesite.com
http://www.abcdexamplesite.com/index.html
http://abcdexamplesite.com/index.html

Good
http://www.abcdexamplesite.com/

To compressed the four default homepages into one homepage, use
301 redirects to correct for wrong incoming
links and make all internal links point to your domain using the
syntax ‘http://www.abcdexamplesite.com/’. Always include trailing “/” on folders.

 

Awesome, I was just reading about this 5 minutes ago on SEO Journal.

I use geekhang.com as my homepage URL everywhere. www.geekhang.com redirects to geekhang.com.

 

thanks for sharing information with us.

 

I think "/" at the end doesn't matter.

 

The right way would be to do it using your htaccess file instead of a 301 redirect.

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

 

@monfis: You are doing 301 redirect using .htaccess ;-)

Apart from the redirect, I also recommend telling Google about your preferred domain URL (with webmaster tools).