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Thomas,

I am on GoDaddy's Website Builder as well and had the exact same issue that brought me to this thread.  I did what they suggested and it got rid of my crawler seeing a duplicate with the home.html page.

Here is what I did:

1. In ALL menu navigations, I replaced the links to home.html with the root URL of my domain (like http://myurl.com)  I had to do this for my main navigation at the top of my website and then a footer navigation that I had.
2. Then, for my logo image in my header, I had to change the link from the home.html page to the same root URL.

After I did this, I did a recrawl and now home.html is not being found and therefore, not showing up as a duplicate.

Would have been nice to have been able to put in a canonical reference but you get what you get and for the flexibility of Website Builder for a quick website, I'll take the extra work to get it just right

Good luck!

-Rhonda

Thanks Ryan and Chiaryn!  All looks good then!  So happy

When I crawl my website www.radiantguard.com, the crawl test comes back with what appears to be a duplicate of my home page:

http://www.radiantguard.com and http://www.radiantguard.com/

Does the crawler indeed see two different pages and therefore, are my search engine rankings potentially affected, AND

is this because of how my rel canonical is set up?

Thanks guys!  It's been a couple of years since we've updated our website.  We've been hesitant to change much for fear of losing rankings.  Guess that's not a problem now. I'll look into a face-lift.

For years, my website was in top 3 organic positions for out most popular keyword; now after the latest google algorithm update we are 17th  This is severely affecting our sales and I need ideas on how to improve our position.

What areas do I need to look at to help correct this drop in organic ranking?

My website is **r a d i a n t g u a r d . c o m **

Thanks, Rhonda

Thomas,

I am on GoDaddy's Website Builder as well and had the exact same issue that brought me to this thread.  I did what they suggested and it got rid of my crawler seeing a duplicate with the home.html page.

Here is what I did:

1. In ALL menu navigations, I replaced the links to home.html with the root URL of my domain (like http://myurl.com)  I had to do this for my main navigation at the top of my website and then a footer navigation that I had.
2. Then, for my logo image in my header, I had to change the link from the home.html page to the same root URL.

After I did this, I did a recrawl and now home.html is not being found and therefore, not showing up as a duplicate.

Would have been nice to have been able to put in a canonical reference but you get what you get and for the flexibility of Website Builder for a quick website, I'll take the extra work to get it just right

Good luck!

-Rhonda