How to remove /index.html that causes duplicated content

[whitelies]

Hi,

How to remove /index.html that causes duplicated content?
From my website navigation links, it does not shows the /index.html.

However, when I run the seomoz crawl errors, it show duplicated content.

Can anyone tell me how to do it?

[Matt-Williamson]

Hi Benjamin - have a look at this Q&A from a few days ago, it will help you correct this.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/duplicate-page-error

[whitelies]

Hi Matt,

If I am using Xsitepro to do my site, is there any way to solve it from there?
Or do I have to add some codes to the .htacess file?

[Matt-Williamson]

Well for a 301 redirect you can add the redirect to your .htaccess file. However I have never used Xsitepro to build a site but I assume you have access to the code behind the pages in which case you can place a canonical tag in the header of your index.html instead of the 301 redirect.

See this link on duplicate content and an explanation of the canonical tag is in there -

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content