Duplicate URL home page

[ThomasErb]

I just got a duplicate URL error on by SEOMOZ report - and I wonder if I should worry about it

Assume my site is named  www.widgets.com

I'm getting duplicate url from

http://www.widgets.com

&

http://www.widgets.com/

Do the search engines really see this as different on the home page?

The general drift on the web is that

You site should look like

Home page = http://www.widgets.com

And subpages

http://www.widgets.com/widget1/

Of course it seems as though the IIS7 slash tool will rewrite everything

Including the home page to a slash.

[AlanMosley]

User ing the slash tool, is a good thing, but if you do use it then you need to make sure thet all your internal links point to the slash version of the URL. or you will get un-necessary redirects each one leaking link juice. It would seem that you have not down this for the crawler to find both versions of teh urls.

If you use the IIS7 tool, you should not get this warning anyhow as when the crawler found the wrong version it would of been 301 redirected to teh correct version.

go back into IIS, clickon the rule and look to see that it is in fact doing a 301 redirect, see redirect type near bottom of dialog box.

or you can look in web.config cna compair it to the example here

http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/how-to-fix-canonical-issues-involving-the-trailing-slash