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Duplicate content on the homepage

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lcdesign last edited by

Hello

SEOMOZ Is giving me an error on duplicated content on my site. When viewing the details it is showing the following as duplicated content

domain.co.uk/

domain.co.uk

domain.co.uk/index.html

Obviously these are the same pages. Why is it seeing them as seperate.

Does anyone know how I can resolve this issue?

Many thanks
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lcdesign @Thommas last edited by

Great. Many thanks for your response!
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Thommas last edited by

This is known as canonical issue. Search engines see these as three different pages. You can fix this using 301 redirect.

More info here
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