Index.php + external site added to end of URL

[drkevinhogan]

Good day, I have a domain http://www.ecofriendlylink.com.  I am trying to resolve the Crawl Diagnostic errors on it.   I have several  Duplicate Page Content errors.

Example 1:

(The domain happynewyou is not mine, some Comments from them have been placed on my site.    Ecoshop.php is a page on my site).

URL:    http://www.ecofriendlylink.com

Duplicate Page Content:  http://www.ecofriendlylink.com/www./happynewyou.com/ecoshop.php

Referrer:   None.

Example 2:

URL:    http://ecofriendlylink.com/index.php

Duplicate Page Content:  http://www.ecofriendlylink.com/index.php http://www.ecofriendlylink.com/www./happynewyou.com/index.php

Referrer:   http://ecofriendlylink.com/

Example 3:  is a different problem, but still a Dup Page Error.

URL:  http://ecofriendlylink.com/water.php

Duplicate Page Content:  http://www.ecofriendlylink.com/water.php

Referrer:  http://ecofriendlylink.com/

water.php is a page on my main domain.  The www version and the non-www version, if this a problem and something I need to overcome?

So please can you advise what I need to do to get rid of this strange external domain name + index.php (as per examples 1 + 2), and explain what I'm doing wrong with Ex 3.

Thank you!

[JaredMumford]

Example 1: Your 404 page is not defined, so whenever an incorrect link is typed, the server returns a 200 OK and it just loads the home page. Somewhere on your site there is a bad link, so when the crawl followed it and returned  a 200 OK , it recorded it as a real page and since it simply loads your home page, it is a duplicate. You need to define a 404 page in htaccess so this does not happen.

Example 2 + 3: the crawler is counting the following pages as your home page:

http://ecofriendlylink.com/

http://ecofriendlylink.com/index.php

http://www.ecofriendlylink.com/

http://wwwecofriendlylink.com/index.php

Thats because your home page can legitimately be loaded all 4 ways. This is a little different than Example 1 since these variations are normal. I suggest adding a non-www to www redirect in htaccess, as well as a redirect that forces a removal of the index.php.

However - before you do that! You should:

a) check to see where a majority of your external links point to (use www.opensiteexplorer.com). If the majority of them point to the non-www version then you may consider redirecting www to non-www.  Also, check your internal links. If you redirect www to non-www or if you remove the index.php with a redirect, make sure that all internal links pointing home point to the proper URL. (so if you did a non-www to www redirect, and removed the index.php with a redirect, make sure all of your internal links point to http://www.ecofriendlylink.com/)

[drkevinhogan]

Thank you very much for your prompt response!

I shall Google defining the 404 page in .htaccess, I'm sure I'll have these errors fixed in no time, and that makes sense re the home page.

Thank you!