Intuit's Homestead web developer

[thompsoncpa]

I used Intuit's homestead to develop my website and when I analyze my site on semoz, I get duplicate page content between the site and the "index".  Is this something to worry about and can I fix it if it is?  Thanks.

Michael

[donford]

O man wow, I haven't heard of Homestead in a very long time. Flash back to early 2000 for me

Okay your duplicate tag...

I assume you are seeing:

yoursite.com & yoursite.com/index as duplicate, Yes?

If this is the case you do want to fix this. Search engines can / may ding you for serving the same exact content on 2 different URLS.

The best way would be with a .htaccess 301 redirect  which would redirect any call to index.html (.php) / .asp whatever extension you have to www.yoursite.com/

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.php
RewriteRule ^(.)index.php$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

You may not have access to the an .htaccess file (linux / unix servers) in such case your next best bet would be to add a rel canonical tag in the section of your site like so..

Hope it helps

[thompsoncpa]

Thank you and yes, you were spot on in your analysis.  I will give your paln "B" a shot in that the htaccess file is unavailable as far as I can tell.  I am a small CPA firm and luckily picked up the domain name ATLANTACPAS.COM for $2,500.  In that I am already analytical, I have chosen to learn SEO and do it myself.  Any feedback through this forum is greatly appreciated.

On thing I found interesting is that SEOMOZ has not updated there "Beginner's guide" to address the new Penguin algorithums.  I would think that would be of key importance.

I will