Best way to handle duplicate title on Home page?
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Moz reports two links to the same Home page ad duplicate titles ...
http://myhjhome.com/index.php
http://myhjhome.comI'm not sure if I should just 301 redirect http://myhjhome.com/index.php to http://myhjhome.com, or if there is a better way to handle that?
Or should I comb the website and make sure all links to the Home page dont include index.php?
Just looking for some extra help here, learning as I'm going, thanks!!
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i took the 301 route and will wait for the next crawl to see if it fixed the duplicate titles, thanks for the info!it's a wordpress
website that i inherited, hence the unfriendly URLs, which I'll be getting to.
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It has a simple solution Just Redirect your .index page to the Homepage. It will resolve your Problem without any more Issue.
Thanks
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Hi Joseph,
There are a few potential reasons for this. How have you built your website? Joomla? Wordpress?
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Hey, no problem. The simple answer is to 301 re-direct your http://myhjhome.com/index.php to http://myhjhome.com. No need to comb your website, I've checked and there's no others
Also, I noticed that some of your URLs, especially your blog posts, aren't search engine friendly, so I would make them so. For example: http://myhjhome.com/blog/?p=16 (Grand Opening..) should, at least, include the title of the blog post as the URL.
Hope this helps & good luck
Tony
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