Both links with ".html" and without are working , Is that a problem ?

[Mohamed_Samer]

Default format of my url ending with ".html" , I know it's not a problem .. But both links with ".html" and without are working , Is that critical problem or not ? and how to solve it ?

[donford]

Hi Mohamed,

This is an important issue. By leaving both versions of the pages up, you run the risk of having it indexed twice and possibly suffer from duplicate content penalties.

There are a couple ways to fix it, but the easiest would be add a canonical meta tag to the page that points to the version your site should be using

**for no extension**

or

**with the extension**

The other way would be to modify your .htaccess file in your root directory to forward all traffic to whichever version you are using.

To force removal of the extension you could do this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [L,NC,R=301]

To force extension you could do this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^..html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.)$ $1.html [L,R=301]

The htaccess should work on most host but if I remember correctly GoDaddy has some special requirements. Check with them if you are using them as a host.

Hope this helps,

Don

[Mohamed_Samer]

Thanks a lot ^_^ , But i need some help to apply this since i'm not developer

I already have canonical tag made by our developers but i don't know if it work properly , How could i know ?

I'm still getting duplicate content reports

I'll state the situation for you

www.example.com/somepage.html (site main format)

rel="canonical" for this page is = http://www.example.com/somepage.html

www.example.com/somepage (duplicate)

rel="canonical" for this page is = http://www.example.com/somepage

www.example.com/somepage/ (another duplicate)

rel="canonical" for this page is = http://www.example.com/somepage/

Is that right or not ?

and how can i measure if google see that as duplicate or not ?

Thanks

[donford]

If the canonical tag is on the page, despite the fact the page loads in either version only the one that you have in your canonical tag will be indexed.

As far the Moz reports these are not updated minute by minute, to see if the canonical tag has fixed the problem in Moz's reports you'll have to wait till they do their next crawl (once a week). You may also use Google's Webmaster and ask for a re-crawl after you made changes.

Hope that helps,

Don