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You should do a 301 redirect from the non "/" version at the end to the www.site.com/widget/ version.

I've posted a "similar" questions a few days ago and someone posted the htaccess code that can work for you too.. you just need to change the domain names and urls there:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/301-redirect-www-domain-com-index-to-www-domain-com

http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/

So that means baisicly that the H1 is part of the design session and no longer part (no longer also part )of the SEO sessions.

So is there any on-page SEO element still important for ranking ? as it looks like only content and links from outside sources are the only things that counts.

Good question - I'm also interested in getting an answer on this. I am also trying to get one single h1 tag, unique, on each page.

Duplicate content is no longer a penalty reason - google will only decide who of them is the original source and list in the search engine results the appropriate source.

Sometimes however the one that in fact is the one that did copied the content is getting listed first and the original source is getting down in search results.

The SEO moz is showing an error on one of the sites within my SE Moz account campaign under Crawl Diagnostics: Title tag missing or empty. No problem here but the file associated with this issue is sitemap.xml and that just dose't look right as as far as I know xml files are title tag free.

I've searched around and i've  been able only to confirm my initial thought that sitemap.xml dose't use a title tag .. like any other xml.

is this an issue ? (the error that is) or i should let it slide.

can it be fixed ? if yes, how ?

Thanks !

seomoz tool is showing duplicate pages for those 3. Each of the version has at least 1 internal and even external links.

all 3 respond in the browser with the same layout/page

Can I use a code like this ? (i've added one entry for index.php as it looks like the site has both an index.html and an index.php)

Barry Smith
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| Helpful Answer | Barry Smith, Head of SEO at Gaming Media Marketing | about 2 hours ago |

Probably the simplest way to redirect the non-www to the www is to put this in your .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html
RewriteRule ^(.)index.html$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.php
RewriteRule ^(.)index.php$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks mate !

More then helpful.

how it will behave if the redirect is not correct ? It will be visible ? (like a never-ending refresh of the main page)

is the last part safe ? as far as the infinite loop things that some are afraid of..

Hello,

Please let me know what are the exact right steps in order to get rid of the duplicate content issues related with:

www.domain.com/index.html same as www.domain.com  without creating an infinite loop.

Do you have a step by step guide posted within seomoz including 301 redirect for non www to www for all urls and index.whatever to main domain name without going into a infinite loop ?

btw how to you spot the loop ? is it obvious like never ending refresh of the home page ?

thanks a lot !