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Moving html site to wordpress and 301 redirect from index.htm to index.php or just www.example.com
I found page duplicate content when using Moz crawl tool, see below. http://www.example.com Page Authority 40 Linking Root Domains 31 External Link Count 138 Internal Link Count 18 Status Code 200 1 duplicate http://www.example.com/index.htm Page Authority 19 Linking Root Domains 1 External Link Count 0 Internal Link Count 15 Status Code 200 1 duplicate I have recently transfered my old html site to wordpress. To keep the urls the same I am using a plugin which appends .htm at the end of each page. My old site home page was index.htm. I have created index.htm in wordpress as well but now there is a conflict of duplicate content. I am using latest post as my home page which is index.php Question 1. Should I also use redirect 301 im htaccess file to transfer index.htm page authority (19) to www.example.com If yes, do I use Redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.example.com/index.php or Redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.example.com Question 2 Should I change my "Home" menu link to http://www.example.com instead of http://www.example.com/index.htm that would fix the duplicate content, as indx.htm does not exist anymore. Is there a better option? Thanks
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