Issue: Duplicate Pages Content

[Colski]

Hello,

Following the setting up of a new campaign, SEOmoz pro says I have a duplicate page content  issue.

It says the follwoing are duplicates:

http://www.mysite.com/

and

http://www.mysite.com/index.htm

This is obviously true, but is it a problem? Do I need to do anything to avoid a google penalty?

The site in question is a static html site and the real page only exsists at http://www.mysite.com/index.htm but if you type in just the domain name then that brings up the same page.

Please let me know what if anything I need to do. This site by the way, has had a panda 3.4 penalty a few months ago.

Thanks,

Colin

[irvingw]

i'm guessing it says 301 and canonical all variations to the one you want to represent your homepage

[Matt-Williamson]

Hi Colin,

This Q&A from a few days ago addresses this issue, the implications and how you can fix it easily - http://www.seomoz.org/q/duplicate-page-error

This should help!