Homepage duplicated content - 301 redirection - "Rel="canonical" - Headache

[mdmoz]

Thank you Thomas for your time and answers.

I added the following code to my htaccess file, but then could not access my site:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.html?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html?$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This is the error when I checked my site:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@********** and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

checking with my hosting company about the IP error in the meantime.

[BlueprintMarketing]

Ok are you on a CMS what type of code?

removing the code and placing this in RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^index.html$ / [R=301,L]

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

http://moz.com/blog/apache-redirect-an-index-file-to-your-domain-without-looping

http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

We we have to add the  removed the /

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13235180/how-to-remove-trailing-slash-for-folder-index-html-when-index-html-is-stri

See this as well

http://dense13.com/blog/2012/10/29/removing-index-html-with-mod_rewrite-in-htaccess/

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mydomain.com$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Redirect 301 /index.htm http://mydomain.com

[mdmoz]

removed and added RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^index.html$ / [R=301,L]

now index.html is redirected to / successfully.

How can I ask Mozpro to check again? I can still see duplicate content warning in my Mozpro account.

Should I go for Crawl test menu?

[mdmoz]

Just checked my site at http://www.siteliner.com/

Still see duplicated warning for www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/index.html

Headache :d

[BlueprintMarketing]

The

duplicated warning for www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/index.html

will stay for a week

Or unfortunately you would have to delete your campaign or start a new campaign that would let you because moz indexes and checks for those errors once week it would need a new campaign but I would not worry about the errors that showing you now that you have corrected this

Awesome excited about redirect work. I did not know what to tell you if that did not. Work

Okay you can crawl your domain and get very similar results almost the same thing. Using this

https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test

If your site is under 500 pages and you want quick confirmation in addition you can use this tool for free up to 500 pages

http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

So use this tool

If you want I can verify it as well for you

https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test

If it is your first time using the Moz campaign tool and you have no history to worry about you can simply start a new campaign. In addition to these tests

I hope this helps,

Tom

[BlueprintMarketing]

Nice!

Yes this will check it 2 times a day if needed

[BlueprintMarketing]

If you are still having problems could you send me your domain either in the form here or privately?

I am psyched that the redirect worked that is really good.

These other issues I can troubleshoot for you very quickly using some tools I have in addition to the excellent tools Moz has.

Download a free copy of screaming frog just a have it is honestly worth it as it is free and awesome.

Can I be of more assistance,

Tom

[BlueprintMarketing]

It could be cache

Try

http://codeblow.com/questions/getting-rid-of-index-html-from-url-and-adding-www-with-a/

try RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.mydomain.com

[eugenecomputergeeks]

I was just about to ask the same question and about to do a 301 redirect myself.  Mine question is should I use www. or just http://site.com?  I know its not good to have both as it could be cited as duplicate content, but what do you all think?   My site is ***techhelp.fake     (not really .fake and its not a TLD or whatever.

[BlueprintMarketing]

Hi

here is how

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

To determine rather not you should redirect to www. or no-www

use http://moz.com/researchtools/ose

to figure out which has more back links pointing to it then 301 redirect to that.

In terms of if one is better than the other there is really not a difference however if they are both equal meeting having no back links or identical.

You might want to go with www. simply because having the subdomain allows you to do some more things like add Google page speed other miscellaneous things in the future.

But really go with the one with the most links if there are no links then choose the one you want going to Google webmaster tools to make sure you add both

examples.com

www.example.com

to Google webmaster tools than pick the same URL you chose to redirect to as your main URL Google will then only send Google bot out looking for that URL

Here

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/44231?hl=en

Hope this helps,

Tom