Index.php getting Duplicate page content.

[ivoryred]

I am quite new to SEO and have now got my first results. I am getting all my index.php pages returned as Duplicate page content.

ie:

blue-widgets/index.php
blue-widgets/

green-widgets/large/index.php
green-widgets/large/

How do solve this issue?

[Brian-H]

You can resolve this many ways.

You can redirect index.php pages to the non index.php pages (or vice versa) in your htaccess.

You can add a rel-canonical tag to the pages to show which is your primary type

You can find where your page links to the index.php types (it could be breadcrumbs or internal links) and amend them.

Here is a good article I found by googling seomoz fix duplicate content

[Unity]

Add a permanent 301 redirect from your /index page and point to your root domain (i.e. non /index pages).
 - You need to do the redirect over canonical because it's a duplicate page/URL rather than a page with blocks of similar content.

Update all mentions within your website that link to the /index page so that they only link to the non /index page. With CMS's you'll need to look where things get automatically added, like links in sitemap, footer, breadcrumbs, the 'home' link and sub-navigation.You may need a developer to remove them if not accessible via the CMS.

Then your duplicate content issues will be gone.