How do I fix the error duplicate page content and duplicate page title?

[JasonHegarty]

On my site www.millsheating.co.uk I have the error message as per the question title.

The conflict is coming from these two pages which are effectively the same page:

www.millsheating.co.uk

www.millsheating.co.uk/index

I have added a htaccess file to the root folder as I thought (hoped) it would fix the problem but I doesn't appear to have done so.

this is the content of the htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^millsheating.co.uk
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.millsheating.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.html\ HTTP/  
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://www.millsheating.co.uk/ [R=301,L]

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

[rtavs]

Hi Jason,

A much more simple fix would be to add a to the /index page. Google will attribute any page authority back to the root and not count the duplicated page.

Hope this helps.

[JasonHegarty]

Hey thanks for the fast repay Ross

Would I place that in the head section of the index page like this -

Thanks again

Jay

[rtavs]

Exactamundo!

Here is the high commander Matt Cutts with a run through on how it all works http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/.

Cheers,

Ross