Godaddy 301 redirect
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Hi,
Happy Holidays to all! Although, this is not Thanksgiving, I am very thankful for becoming a member of this site. I ahve learned so much.
Here is yet another question hping to have answered by the pundits of this SEOMOZ:
I have a site built on site builder and hosted on Yahoo Hosting which does not allow 301 Redirects; I was fortunate enough to have someone help opn this site explain to me how to use Godaddy (they are my domain provide) to 301 through forwarding, work great!
My http://domain.com now directs to www.domain.com , the only problem I am having now is, on :sitebuilder" the index page is classified as index.html, thus providing duplicate content again. Can you do two redirects through Godaddy? In othert words, my http://domain.com/ goes to www.domain.com/ eliminating duplicent content, but now I have another URL - http:..domain.com/index.html how do i get rid of that to prevent dup content.
Any feed back would be great, Happy Holidays!
Jimmy
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Hi Jimmy,
If I am understanding your question correctly, a good resource is to call the GoDaddy tech support and they can walk you through the steps. My advice would be to consider these steps:
Assuming you are logged in..
New Redirect
FROM:
Domain: www.domain.com/
Path: /index.html
With or without www.prefix
TO:
Prefix: http
Domain: www.domain.com/
I would confirm this with GoDaddy, so you ensure it doesn't create an infinite loop, but this should allow you to accomplish your goal. They are fairly good at a walkthrough and are available 24/7 at (480) 505-8877
Cheers.
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