Duplicate page content

[onlinetraffic]

Hi.

I am getting error of having duplicate content on my website and pages its showing there are:

www.mysitename.com

www.mysitename.com/index.html

As my best knowledge it only one page, I know this can be solved with some conical tag used in header, but do not know how.

Can anyone please tell me about that code or any other way to get this solved.

Thanks

[KeriMorgret]

The best solution is to do a 301 redirect to your preferred URL (likely the one without the index.html). That way people never see the index.html URL, never link to it, and all the juice goes to the other URL.

To be able to give you instructions for this, it's best if you can tell us what type of server you are on (such as IIS or Apache), or if you can give us the URL we can figure it out from that.

If you're not able to do a redirect, the canonical tag is the second best choice. Users will remain on the /index.html page, but at least Google then knows that it's the same page as /,

[JoeAmadon]

The code you would want to add to the would be:

You can find more information about using the rel="canonical" at :

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394

[Trupanion]

It will all depend on how your site is setup and what type of server.  Can you give us more detail on that?