Google sees 2 home pages while I only have 1
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How to solve the problem of google seeing both domain.com and domain.com/index.htm when I only have one file? Will the cannonical work? If so which? Or any other solutions for a novice?
I learned from previous blogs that it needs to be done by hosting service, but Yahoo has no solution.
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don't use canonical this is not what it is for, use a 301, redirect, and make sure that all your links in your site point to domain.com.
when people link to your site, you want them to always link to the same url, using a canonical will not hide the index.htm, and there for you will get links and book marks to the wrong url
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you need to set up a 301 redirect from index.htm to the straight domain URL (www.domain.com). this usually needs to be done from the server end. have you explained the specific issue to yahoo? customer service may be able to do this for you if it's not in the yahoo hosting/admin interface.
EDIT: see you've done canonical which is good. have you given google enough time to spider that change into SERPs?
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