My website is being opened by multiple URLs?

[docbeans]

Dear Friends,

I have a website which is being opened like example.comand example/index to same page. Is there any problem SEO point of view. By the way I have placed the Rel= canonical tag in source page. its working fine but

[AndersS]

Hi Sarwan!

The rel canonical will not change the URL opened in a browser. It will only be a signal to the search engines to count links for docbeans.com/index as links to docbeans.com and to threat them as a single URL in regards to ranking.

Also, doing the 301 redirect shouldn't really have an impact with load times, as the redirects happens before loading any content. As they both load the same content, I guess this is because the docbean.com is really an alias for docbean.com/index.

Hope this helps.

Anders

[AndersS]

Hi!

With the rel=canonical in place, this is a stronge hint to the search enignes that docbeans.com is the one that should be indexed. Is it possible for you to do a 301 redirect from docbeans.com/index to docbeans.com (or the other way around), then that would probably be even better(?). Are there any particular reasons for you to keep both, then this has to be taken into the equation.

Have you had the change to look at this page: https://moz.com/blog/301-redirect-or-relcanonical-which-one-should-you-use. It could be of some value for you to decide whether to just keep the canonical or to do a 301.

Hope this helps!

Anders