Do I have a canonical problem?
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Does this site www.davidclick.com have a canonical problem because the home page can be requested via 3 different urls
http://www.davidclick.com/
http://davidclick.com/
http://www.davidclick.com/index.htmbut I'm confused in terms of applying a fix for example all advice here http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139066#1 says i need to identify the duplicate files and add
So my question is please if I do have a canonical problem how can i fix it when I only have one file for my home page, there are no duplicates
Any insights welcome
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Glad you sorted it out.Thumbs up for posting your solution here
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Just done it and below is how i did it:
To sort out the home page without the www:
Options +FollowSymlinksRewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^davidclick.comRewriteRule (.*) http://www.davidclick.com/$1 [R=301,L]
To sort out the the home page with /index.htm:
redirect 301 http://www.davidclick.com/index.htm http://www.davidclick.com/
Got more advice from here: http://www.squidoo.com/301/8937705
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Thank you Saijo & Justin I'm on it now
[CASE CLOSED]
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Your page http://www.davidclick.com/ ranks better than the others ( I just had a quicklook, only looking at the page authority from moztoolbar ).
I would use canonical where you need the 3 duplicate pages for users ( In this case that is not the case ) .. eg : on a shopping website sort by A-Z , by Price , Z-A, etc could all display the same things in different order BUT users benefits from having those so use a rel canonical there.
In your case there is no real need for the 3 separate pages , so I would use .htaccess and do a permanent redirect to http://www.davidclick.com/
Hope that helps
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My suggestion would be to set up the canonical link on the index page and link it to http://www.davidclick.com/ with the forward slash at the end as when you click through it adds it anyway.
This should sort out the rest of the pages and pass the link juice to that one page.
more info here http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization
Hope this helps
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