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Problems with site.com & site.com/index.html (SEO)

by LastWarrior
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Hello,

I have a question about a situation I see at one of my sites. The home page or index page reads mysite.com when you type it in the browser, but when I looked at the "home" links on each page that directs to the home page or index page it reads mysite.com/index.html... and if you clink the link, it goes to mysite.com/index.html.

Does Google see these as two different pages? Is this not a SEO friendly situation to have?

I'm working with WordPress, something I'm not the best at and if were just using html/css, I'd just go in and change the linking.

So I guess I have two questions now:

1.) Should this be changed or is it ok the way it is? If so, please explain

2.) If this needs to be changed or should be, how do I do it from within my WordPress control panel?

Any advice or opinion you can offer would be appreciated.

Thanks.

LastWarrior
#problems #seo #sitecom #sitecom or indexhtml
  • Profile picture of the author webcosmo
    this is how default document works. it is the home page document thats called behind the scene. honestly i wont worry about it at all.

    but if you want to change it, set the site url property for those links. you need to edit the template files for this.
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  • Profile picture of the author mgreener
    Hi,

    Webcosmo is right. Don't really need to worry about it.

    To ease your mind, you can get a Wordpress plugin that helps with canonicalization (making sure that all URL's are the same and that there aren't 383729 versions of the same page).
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