Gets traffic on both domain.dk and domain.dk/default.asp
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Hi.
Im runnning a couple of sites. And in my analytics/webmastertool I get both traffic on domain.dk and domain.dk/default.asp which are both essentially the same page.
I'm pretty sure it would be better, if I somehow could make the default.asp "redirect" to "/". I dont wanna loose the linkjuice thou.
Any smart suggestions for an easy fix?
/Kasper
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Thanks guys.
I'll go with the cannonical tag first.
And I used screaming frog to find the internal links - Thanks for that Dirk.
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Apart from the excellent answers already given above, don't forget to check your internal links - and check that you always link to domain.dk and not to domain.dk/default.asp (Screaming Frog can help you to check that). Inconsistent internal linking is often a reason why google detects the second version in the first place.
rgds,
Dirk
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Obviously it is a good idea as this very Google will have an idea about what page is the preferred version by the website owner plus when two different pages (containing the same content) will become one they will share their link power and duplicate content on the website will be reduced.
Hope to do that?
There are quite a few ways, you could do this but by looking in to your URL example it seems like your website pages are based on ASP so in ASP this is how you can set 301 redirection.
Here is the code you can use:
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<%
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.newlocation.com");
}
%>
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For more information regarding this, http://www.301-redirect.info/en/301-redirect-with-asp-net.html might be of help!
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Hi Kasper,
I think your own suggestion is just right. Put a 301 redirect on the /defailt.asp page and your linkjuice should be fine.
Two extra hints:
1. Make sure your internal links point to your normal homepage (not the /default.asp).
2. If you have any valuable backlinks pointing to /default.asp you can try to change (ask the webmasters) the backlinks to your normal homepage.
Both suggestions prevent your linkjuice from going through a 301 redirect. Although 301 redirects pass linkjuice there is a damping factor (0,85) in the original PageRank system which lowers your linkjuice a bit with every link / 301 redirect it passes through.
Good luck!
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Hello.
Just create a file called .htaccess on your root with these two lines of code:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./default.asp
RewriteRule ^(.)default.asp$ /$1 [R=301,L]Also, use a code editor to look on your code for appearances of "default.asp" to make sure you are not linking to that full address, as that link could be the cause of Google indexing that wrong URL.
If you are not comfortable with .htaccess and redirections, you could also implement a canonical meta tag to indicate your preferred URL for that page.
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