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    • webbutler13
      webbutler13 last edited by

      I want to forward all urls to http:www.mysite.com but am a little confuse because I am getting duplicate content error:

      Pages with Duplicate Page Content

      as of Jan 15http://titanappliancerepair.com/ 1 duplicatehttp://titanappliancerepair.com 1 duplicatehttp://titanappliancerepair.com/index.html 1 duplicate*****************************************************************What should I put ion htaccess file so I can forwardhttp://titanappliancerepair.com/index.htmlhttp://titanappliancerepair.comhttp://titanappliancerepair.com/to  http://www.titanappliancerepair.comor what is the correct way to do it?I'm confused because when I enter http://titanappliancerepair.com/ in browser it showshttp://titanappliancerepair.com so how can it be considered duplicate content?.Can someone help?I have godaddy and they have gave me this code to put RewriteEngine on
      rewritecond %{http_host} ^coolexample.com [nc]
      rewriterule ^(.
      )$ http://www.coolexample.com/$1 [r=301,nc]What is correct?

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      • MickEdwards
        MickEdwards @webbutler13 last edited by

        your directories have duplication.  For example: http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/about-us.html and http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/about-us

        You may also need   RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301**,**L]

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        • webbutler13
          webbutler13 last edited by

          Ok I have added this to htaccess file and everything seems to be redirecting in browser ok but is it good enough for google?

          Can someone check and tell me if it is correct , if not can you help with code? Thanks in advance!

          RewriteEngine on
          rewritecond %{http_host} ^titanappliancerepair.com [nc]
          rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

          RewriteEngine on
          rewritecond %{http_host} ^titanappliancerepair.com/ [nc]
          rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

          RewriteEngine on
          rewritecond %{http_host} ^titanappliancerepair.com/index.html [nc]
          rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

          RewriteEngine on
          RewriteBase /

          redirect html pages to the root domain

          rewriterule ^index.html$ / [r=301,nc]

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          • MickEdwards
            MickEdwards last edited by

            It looks like you are redirecting any URL back to itself.

            You want something like this which will remove index.html and enforce a trailing slash-

            RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

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            • webbutler13
              webbutler13 last edited by

              This is what I have so far in htaccess file

              RewriteEngine on
              rewritecond %{http_host} ^titanappliancerepair.com [nc]
              rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

              RewriteEngine on
              rewritecond %{http_host} ^coolexample.com/ [nc]
              rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

              RewriteEngine on
              rewritecond %{http_host} ^coolexample.com/index.html [nc]
              rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

              RewriteEngine on
              rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.titanappliancerepair.com/index.html [nc]
              rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

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