Duplicate page content

[jwdl]

Hello,

The pro dashboard crawler bot thing that you get here reports the mydomain.com and mydomain.com/index.htm as duplicate pages.

Is this a problem? If so how do I fix it?

Thanks

Ian

[wissamdandan]

Yes it is a common canonicalization problem

To fix this issue you need to consolidate all the version to one URL by implementing a Rel Canonical or 301 Redirect

[Debdulal]

_And yes, make sure that XML sitemap and other navigational link is hyperlinked with the canonical version of the URLs otherwise, it will be sending confusing signals to search engines. _

[jwdl]

Thanks for that, so if I put

http://www.example.com/>

into the head of the http://www.example.com/index.htm page?

Will that fix it even though they are physically the same file?
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[Debdulal]

yes it will fix this

[jwdl]

OK thank you both