How to do ip canonicalization ?

[unibiz]

Hi ,

my website is opening with IP too.  i think its duplicate content for google...only home page is opening with ip, no other pages,  how can i fix it?,  might be using .htaccess i am able to do...but don't know proper code for this...this website is on wordpress platform...

Thanks

Ramesh

[RomeoMadrid]

Hello,

You can add the next lines to your .htaccess to overcome the duplicate content on Serach Engines.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^82.223.246.132

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.html

RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This is for auto WWW, auto redirect from www.domain.com/index.php[or]index.html to www.domain.com

I hope this helped you!

[Chris.Menke]

Ramesh,

It's not a problem that you site opens when you type in the IP address--that's normal.

[BlueprintMarketing]

Hi Ramesh,

Chris is absolutely right there's no way your IP address is creating content

Your site is accessible through using DNS domain name servers your IP address is translated by a computer DNS server into something that you can remember like example.com instead of 123.488.91.00

It has no way of creating duplicate content

Regardless you do want to use a

Tags for every valid webpage that you want to show up in Google search engine.

here is more

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

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/rel-canonical-html-head/

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

Hope this is of help,

Thomas

[Devanur-Rafi]

Hi Ramesh,

Being able to access your website using the IP address is very common and there is nothing that you should be worried about in this regard. It happens when you are hosting your site on a dedicated IP. This won't be the case if you go for a shared hosting where the IP address would be shared among other websites.

Best,

Devanur Rafi.

[Balkon_Hotel]

Thank you Thomas