Opens Site Explorer sees two pages that are one
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www.mysite.com/ and www.mysite.com/default.asp are both showing up in open site explorer. How do I make sure that these are not being interpreted as two pages when they are the same page? (Both in search engines and OSE.)
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It looks like I have done it correctly with the rel canonical. Open Site Explorer shows it as two different pages. I suppose that is just the way OSE works.
This line:
is in the header of both www.mysite.com/ and www.mysite.com/default.asp.
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There are a couple of options for site owners in your situation. The first option is to create a 301 redirect from the "duplicate" page to the "preferred" page. This will eliminate that extra URL and forward it to the preferred one. If that's not possible for whatever reason, you can specify the rel canonical tag in your head section which basically tells search bots to prefer the page you specify in that tag. Here is info on rel canonical: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
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