1 Reply Latest reply: Sep 16, 2014 2:55 PM by Liam Dilley RSS

    SEO issues because I can't setup a 301 redirect for /index.html - any ideas?

    ryanprentice Community Member
    ryanprentice Sep 16, 2014 9:18 AM

      Hi,

       

      I've noticed a few of my sites are having an issue where both the /index.html and the / URL's are being seen by Google as 2 versions of my homepage even though they are just the one version.

       

      What I am hoping to do is create a 301 redirect so that e.g. www.abc.com/index.html forwards to www.abc.co.uk however this does not seem possible in BC using the standard URL redirect functionality.

       

      Has anyone experienced this issue? How did you get around it?

       

      Secondly I was wondering if anyone knows if using BC if it is possible to get access to the HT Access file to do this?

       

      Thanks,

       

      Ryan

        • 1. Re: SEO issues because I can't setup a 301 redirect for /index.html - any ideas?
          Liam Dilley CommunityMVP
          Liam Dilley Sep 16, 2014 2:55 PM (in response to ryanprentice)

          Hi there,

          This has been covered a lot. You will not encounter SEO issues on this if you do not link to it. SEO report tools, scan a site and look for all things that may cause SEO issues, and they can report that, and an SEO guy could blindly say that is SEO issue, but if you do not tell google about it then they wont link to it.

           

          A 301 redirect would paint over the problem as it were, but the real problem is that your linking to the home page in different ways on your website. You need to go through it and fix that up. That is the real problem, once you have done that, it will take a little time but google will naturally degrade the other links it used to find and this will go away.