Alternatives 301? Issues redirection of index.html page with Adobe Business Catalyst

[Anna_Hoesl]

Hi Moz community,

As for now we have two different versions of a client's homepage that’s dividing our traffic. One of the urls is the index.html version of the other url. We are using Adobe Business Catalyst for one of our clients and they told us they can’t 301 redirect.

Adobe Business Catalyst does 301 redirects, but not to itself like an .htaccess rewrite. Doing a 301 redirect using BC from index.html to / creates an infinite loop and break the page.

Are there alternatives to a 301 or any suggestions how to solve this?

Thanks for all your answers and thoughts in advance,
Anna

[LoganRay]

HI Anna,

Generally speaking, Google is pretty good at indexing only the / version of a homepage. But if you're having problems with them indexing both, you can use a canonical tag on the homepage to solve this. For more information on this, check out Moz's guide to canonicals.

From a traffic measurement perspective, you can configure Google Analytics to associate metrics from both URLs with only the / version. Simply go to your filters and create a new custom filter. Select 'search and replace' and set search string as /index.html and replace string as /.

Hope that's helpful!