Duplicate Page Title

[pixel83]

Not sure how to fix this.  I am getting a duplicate page title for my main url, and the index page.  I have attached an image.  Thanks.

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[Francisco_Meza]

Check GWT. You may have to 301 redirect the index to the /. I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. Check the SERP and see which one you are already ranking for. If / is in the SERP, then Google has already chosen which one to display. Also check GWT under Duplicate Titles.

[pixel83]

Forgive my ignorance, what is the GWT?

[KTaylor]

GWT = Google Webmaster Tools

[coremediadesign]

What you should do, as Francisco already pointed out is to make sure that all links, which should serve the /index.html (landing page for your domain) are pointing to forward slash - i.e. if you have a Home link in your navigation this should have the href attribute pointing to / like so:

Home

Make sure that each link on your site links the same way - that should solve the problem.

Hope that helps.

[pixel83]

Ok, so any links pointing to my index page should have the Href value "/"?

[coremediadesign]

That's correct - if you stick to it you won't have the situation where one page is linking to '/' and the other to /index.html - eliminating the duplicate content.

Francisco has suggested 301 redirection which you should do in case someone links directly to /index.html. If there will be no signs of a link pointing to /index.html then it wouldn't be indexed and problem solved, but someone from the external resource might use it even though it's not found on your site - therefore you might be better using the redirection either way.

You could additionally use canonical tag to indicate that the /index.html is to serve the page at '/' location.

[pixel83]

Got it! Thanks for your help everyone.