Link-building screw up. Can "link rel="canonical"" fix it?

[HassanAjmal]

Hi, One of my sites had about 150 links built to it through index.php instead of the main domain URL.

Instead of http://amazingnycprinting.com, it was built to http://amazingnycprinting.com/index.php


In an attempt to fix it, I added link rel="canonical" between the head tags on index.php. Is that the right way to make sure I get all the link juice to the main domain?

How long does it take to fix it self?

Thanks guys

[HassanAjmal]

bumpity bump

[nikmatbersama]

yes, it needs to be repaired ... and time to let it go naturally

[HassanAjmal]

Originally Posted by nikmatbersama

yes, it needs to be repaired ... and time to let it go naturally

That tag should fix it, right?

[sijugk]

Originally Posted by HassanAjmal

Hi, One of my sites had about 150 links built to it through index.php instead of the main domain URL.



Thanks guys

The best way to transfer PR flow to domain name is by a 301 redirection from index.php to the domain name itself.

[raviv]

Hey Hassan,
rel=canonical tag is more appropriate in the case of, say, product pages with lots of variations when you use filters like sorting by size, color, price etc. Such filtered pages can have the rel=canonical tag to point to the parent category page.

In the case of yoursite dot com/index.php and yoursite dot com, you have two distinct versions of the home page. So the link juice to your site gets divided between these two versions and pagerank gets diluted.

If you know how to edit the .htaccess file (assuming your site is hosted on a Linux server), you can specify a 301 redirect from yoursite.com/index.php to yoursite.com

An example for you to have a look.

Hope this helps
Best
Raviv

[HassanAjmal]

Thanks man

[Jonathan Beaton]

Originally Posted by raviv

Hey Hassan,
rel=canonical tag is more appropriate in the case of, say, product pages with lots of variations when you use filters like sorting by size, color, price etc. Such filtered pages can have the rel=canonical tag to point to the parent category page.

In the case of yoursite dot com/index.php and yoursite dot com, you have two distinct versions of the home page. So the link juice to your site gets divided between these two versions and pagerank gets diluted.

If you know how to edit the .htaccess file (assuming your site is hosted on a Linux server), you can specify a 301 redirect from yoursite.com/index.php to yoursite.com

An example for you to have a look.

Hope this helps
Best
Raviv

This is the best answer.^

In this situation the canonical is a lazy fix and you will be much better of using a 301.

[HassanAjmal]

Another question related to this.

I have another situation, where I built a lot of backlinks to a site
onestepfortune.com

But now I stopped using that domain, but I have a lot of links pointing to stuff like

http://www.onestepfortune.com/artbase.html
http://www.onestepfortune.com/articles.html
http://www.onestepfortune.com/video.html

Those end HTML files are all tracking redirect links from the tracking software Adtrackz.

Question is, if I want to tranfer all that link juice to my new domain which is http://www.Massive-MLM-Leads.com .... do I just go into my Godaddy domain manager and do a 301 redirect from onestepfortune.com to massive-mlm-leads.com? Or do I have to do something specific since a lot of my links were linked to those tracking links I mentioned above?

[HassanAjmal]

Okay cool, I figured it out.

I made 301 redirects for each path to the root directory of the new domain