Duplicate Content being caused by home page?

[threebiz]

Hello everyone,

I am new to SEOmoz and SEO in general and I have a quick questions. When running a SEO Web Crawler report on my URL, I noticed in the report that my home page (also known as my index page) was listed twice. Here is what the report was showing:

www.example.com/

www.example.com/index.php

So are these 2 different urls? If so, is this considered duplicate content and should I block crawler access to the index.php? Thanks in advance for the help!

[Kotkov]

Yes, it is considered duplicate content

www.example.com

www.example.com/

www.example.com/index.php

http://example.com/index.php

and so on are all duplicate pages. Provide the link to your website so we can help you out on that.

Serge

[asystematic]

Try to search your site via google with "site:yoursite" operator. When you see both / and /index.php it might be a problem.

[threebiz]

Thanks for the response. I understand how to do that but my question is www.example.com/ & www.example.com/index.php considered duplicate content? If so, should I block crawler access to the index.php?

[Kotkov]

Hi. The best would be to redirect index.php to /

that might be useful for you

http://css-tricks.com/how-to-redirect-indexhtml-to-indexphp/