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    • wellnesswooz
      wellnesswooz last edited by

      Hi,

      In my crawl diagnotics, I received an error for duplicate content:

      1. www.website.com

      2. www.website.com/

      3. www.website.com/index.html

      Which code do I have to add to my htaccess to avoid this?

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      • Keszi
        Keszi last edited by

        Hi Wellnesswooz,

        There is a faster approach, it is called canonical.

        Just insert a into the header of the index.html and you have resolved this issue.

        Gr.,

        Istvan

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