Site Wide Internal Navigation links

[wissamdandan]

Todd,

One URL have /index.html and the other URL is without.

and i dnt thing you have been penalized for excessive internatl links.

and I would add more content to accommodate additional links.

[toddyC]

Thanks again I've freshened the content on the category pages so hopefully that will help also.

[toddyC]

Thanks for the response. We certainly have duplicate content issues that I'm looking to address but none of the product or sub category pages are affected so I'm convinced it;s down to excessive internal linking.

Open site explorer shows over 1700 internal links pointing to the category pages with the same anchor text.

Unless anyway has any direct advice on accessive linking I'll have to address all of the above and see how it goes,

Thanks anyway.

Todd

[Getz.pro]

http://www.americanmuscle.com/

American Muscle has many, many links all pointing to category pages and they rank #1-3 on most all Mustang related searches.

I have not counted their links, but I am sure if there was a penalty for excessive internal linking, American Muscle would be a candidate.

[toddyC]

Great! Thanks Richard.

They dont use no follows and they are ranking just fine! Must be down to some other factors.

Thanks for your help.

Todd

[toddyC]

Hi Wissam,

Looking at this http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control is directed to

http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/index.html

I cant see any duplicates?

[wissamdandan]

Todd,

When you access www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/ it will show you the exact content if you go to www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/index.html.

Google See these two URL as 2 different URLs with same content, hence your content is duplicated

this is an article of how to deal with DC from Google Blog http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html

[toddyC]

Sorry If I'm being really stupid here Wissam!

But when I click both the links you just provided the URLs are identical?

We have a 301 redirect set up so that both go to http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/moss-control/index.html

Again apologies if I'm missing something!

[wissamdandan]

Todd,

your not, its my bad, need to input more into my answers.

so here is a screenshot of an http header response for shop/moss-control/

http://markup.io/v/fvjrfw5a3te5

and this is another screenshot of an http respons for shop/moss-control/index.html

http://markup.io/v/ggt61a170rfw

Both are showing a 200 response, means no redirect. please feel free to ask more

[toddyC]

Thanks again.

This is a little over my head now sorry Wissam.

Could you elaborate a little more? (in terms a lamen like me will understand)

Cheers

[wissamdandan]

Lol,

Sure, so what i showed you now, that you are serving 2 URLs with the same content. this is will be a severe problem when people will link to you to shop/moss-control/ for example. and you are focusing your link building, internet linking to this shop/moss-control/index.html. a Duplicate content filter will be flagged and will loose ranking for both.

the steps needed now, are to 301 redirect your shop/moss-control/ to shop/moss-control/index.html

[toddyC]

Thanks for your help!

Thats great!