Index.php and /

[lfrazer]

Hello,

We have a php system and in the MOZ error report our index.php shows up as a duplicate for / (home page). I instituted a rel canonical on the index.php because the / gets better rank than the other. This said, the error report through MOZ still shows them as duplicates. Should I be using a 301 instead? Please help! Also, I would love a good technical SEO book (for bridging the gap between SEO and programmer) if someone can recommend one?

Thanks in advance!

[AlanMosley]

fix the links, so that they point to the correct url.

[AlanMosley]

no use having the canonical as well.

iwould be looking for links within your site that point to https://findmover.in

also do you need to use https? if your site does not need to be encrypted, then it would run faster as http

[BlairKuhnen]

Good Answer.

[AlanMosley]

Yes you should 301 redirect instead.

but you must have links that point to the index.php url or the crawler would not have found it. fix those links so that they point to "/"

links that go thought a 301 loose a bit of link juice, if you can make your link go directly to the correct url you can save that links juice.

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.index.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.)index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]