Weird Indexing Question

[BryanPhelps-BigLeapWeb]

Google has indexed mysite.com/ and mysitem.com/\/ (no idea why).  If you click on the /%5C? URL it takes you to mysite.com//.  I have a rel=canonical tag on it that goes to mysite.com/ but I was wondering if there was another way to correct the issue.

[SteveOllington]

301 Redirect then wait

[BryanPhelps-BigLeapWeb]

can you do an htaccess redirect with weird characters like %?  I ran into problems w/ odd characters before.

[aarondicks]

If it's canonical then don't worry!

[zharriet]

Try doing the redirect with mysite.com//

The %5C equals \ in URL Escape Code.

Not that I am an expert in this, maybe someone who is a techie will comment.

[BryanPhelps-BigLeapWeb]

canonical won't get it out of the index though, right?  I'm not one of the "trust Google to work things out" people.

[SteveOllington]

It will come out of the index once G realises you've told it that both pages are one and the same. So yeah it will come out.

[aarondicks]

Yes MonaVie as Steve Ollington has said, once it's realised that the two are one of the same, then there is no risk of penalty!