Issue: Duplicate Page Title
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When you are in Error status for Duplicate Page Titles - but it is because of the root domain:
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- How to you go about changing the title of the same page without looking un-natural.
My client has built his site with the - index file pulling to the root - but the crawlers are seeing TWO separate pages - when in reality they are the same.
Riddle me this batman?
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This is fantastic stuff thanks Batman!
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Agreed, although you may want to consider using a canonical link instead of a 301, both methods will work, but canonical links are increasingly replacing 301's in the scenario you have outlined
See this post by seomoz
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization
hope this helps -
Just 301 the /index to / Robin and go back to the bat cave and wait.
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