Which homepage URL is better?

My sites have 3 different homepage URLs:

domain.com
domain.com/
domain.com/index.php

All these URL's shows the same page, homepage.
I suspect that these URLs can affect SERPs negatively because of the content duplication.

What do you think about this?

 

There is no problem having the three, however, it is important that you only use one of them when acquiring backlinks... I would only use domain.com

 

Me too. But I can not redirect index.php to domain.com.
If I use domain.com, domain.com/index.php stays live.

I can redirect domain.com to domain.com/index.php. But this seems to me not user friendly. Because some visitors might want to see domain.com on their browsers' address bar to be sure on where they are.

 

Yes I agree vstar that it is better that you only optimize one of them. domain.com is the best

 

Hi,

your domain name is (( domain.com )) which you should use for all advertising, marketing or whatever. The other pages are not your official domain.

 

Build all your links as anchors pointing to hXXp://domain.com regarding homepage. Use the same anchor inside your website every time you wish to link to the homepage. Add a .htaccess rule to enforce www or non-www (whatever you prefer).

 

domain.com is correct for seo view.

 

i always use
domain.com/

 

Use domain.com

And use canonical tags to indicate the one true URL

 

I prefer using domain.com as well. Probably just because I'm too lazy to type www all the time
lol

 

domain.com is the one I would use.

 

sometimes I use domain.com/ ..means that I will loose some backlinks already.. this is not good..

 

this is untrue you can use any form you want it does not matter what you use.

 

i prefer www.domain.com

 

domain.com

internally resolves to

domain.com/

They are the same page. You can save some server overhead by redirecting everything to the domain.com/ version.

As far as domain.com/index.php - the SE's will see this as a distinct URL which might result in duplicate content issues. Best practice would be to redirect it to domain.com/

 

301 everything to the canonical version...Like a lot of folks before me have said, you lose your link juice when you have 3-4 dif. versions of your site....sure, it may not be dif. in your eyes, but to a search engine they are all their own sites......

301 all of other versions to the version you like best (i.e. www.whatever.com)....it is called canonicalization...here is an article to help you http://www.highrankingseo.net/url-canonicalization/

good luck

 

Here is my post on a thread about the identical thing a few days ago (August 1st):

 

Thanks for the replies.

Is there any difference between "www.example.com" and "www.example.com/" ?

If yes, how can I redirect ""www.example.com" to ""www.example.com/" ?

By the way I found this code:

RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

It seems working but I am not sure if it is the best.

 

From the Apache URL Rewriting Guide:

"Every webmaster can sing a song about the problem of the trailing slash on URLs referencing directories. If they are missing, the server dumps an error, because if you say /~quux/foo instead of /~quux/foo/ then the server searches for a file named foo. And because this file is a directory it complains. Actually it tries to fix it itself in most of the cases, but sometimes this mechanism need to be emulated by you. For instance after you have done a lot of complicated URL rewritings to CGI scripts etc."

Thus my previous post. example.com and example.com/ are one and the same - except...

Best practice is to include the trailing slash.

 

true thats why i always add it