Hello,

As an experiment I am trying to work with an SBI site but am noticing index.html is being forced on me as the homepage.

As I understand it's good practice to 301 redirect the index.html page to the to the actual home page. Can someone please confirm that I am right in thinking this?

Here is an example:

http://www.anguilla-beaches.com/index.html
http://www.anguilla-beaches.com/

According to yahoo 773 links are pointing to the index.html page and 771 links are pointing to the / page.

I'm sure Google knows that these are the same pages and does not consider them as duplicate but surely the index.html page should be redirected right? am I going mad here?

Now if we look at this site:

http://www.jugglenow.com the homepage has 198 links according to yahoo
http://www.jugglenow.com/index.html this page also has 198 links? now I am confused, are these 2 the same page?

On this page:

http://www.jugglenow.com/juggling-balls.html notice how there is no link to the actual homepage but there is a link to the index.html page.

Am I missing something here because I can't figure it out, surely there should be just 1 homepage without a index.html page.

Any help would be appreciated