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    • satoridesign
      satoridesign last edited by

      After crawl I saw that dup content came from domain.com/index.php and domain.com. I was going to redirect one of them but im curious which way to go.  The /index.php has domain auth of 19, the other 17, so not big difference. Domain.com has 2 external linking domains and index.php has 1. The big difference is in the internal link counts where index.php has 76 and the other only 4.  So should I direct index.php to / or the other way around?

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      • stever999
        stever999 last edited by

        Personally I would redirect (and canonical!) to "/" simply because that's what most people expect from a website homepage. At the moment the value of all your internal and external links are being split between the two URL's, as soon as you redirect to one or the other that page should then get all the credit.

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        • satoridesign
          satoridesign @stever999 last edited by

          Thanks. I agree especially since there didnt seem to be much at stake..lol. I guess I just was unclear on the value of the internal links count in moz, I just started using the system...

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