Canonical issue with my Home Page

[Melia]

Hi,

My site has several canonical issues that should be fixed.

http://www.crosscountryallied.com

For my Home Page, more links are pointing at www.crosscountryallied.com/ (887) than http:// http://www.crosscountryallied.com/ctAlliedWebSite (27). It is recommended that I implement a 301 redirect to recapture a significant amount of link value.

The following lists show the most common canonicalization errors that can be produced when using default settings on my web server:

Microsoft Internet Information Services 6 (IIS):

http://www.crosscountryallied.com/

http://www.crosscountryallied.com/default.jsp (or .jsp depending on the version)

http://crosscountryallied.com/

http://crosscountryallied.com/default.jsp

or any combination with different capitalization.

Each of these URLs spreads out the value of backlinks to our homepage. Should I just redirect them to:

http://www.crosscountryallied.com

and add a canonical tag?

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Melia,

Your website brings back memories. In my teens, my career goal was to become a traveling OT for a firm like yours. A few twists and turns of life later, and here I am. Did the advice from Jeff and James help you make a decision, or are you still needing some more help?

[JamesNorquay]

Hi,

I have seen numerous similar problems like this with the CMS, ideally you need to implement the canonical tag onto the home page and then you should 301 all the other URLS which have links to the main url been: http://www.crosscountryallied.com

This includes the non www version of the website.

[jeffreytrull1]

When I access your site via "http://www.crosscountryallied.com," I'm redirected to "http://www.crosscountryallied.com/ctAlliedWebSite"

Is this what you want?

Either way, if both pages are just the home page for your site, I don't see why you would need both a 301 and a canonical tag in this case. Just use a 301 to the URL that you prefer.