March 31, 2008
Internal Duplicate Content Debate Continues …
I saw over in Jill Wahlen’s forums where she saw that Google is treating index.html the same as the root domain now. While that’s good news, it should be a non-factor, as good webmastering begins with ensuring you have the proper redirects in place on your server so you don’t have to count on Google doing their job, you serve up what you want.
Seriously, don’t count on Google to do your job as webmaster, do it and do it right. If you want to read an article which covers this topic quite nicely, have a read:
Filed under Google, SEM/SEO, Webmaster by Jerry West
Comments on Internal Duplicate Content Debate Continues … »
James Shaw @ 8:44 am
Hey Jerry, just wanted to let you know that the IIS post you reference from that tip is pretty weak; a) it only fixes the home page (and doesn’t explain that major flaw to newbies) and b) it only gives an ASP fix (not the current ASP.NET technology).
I found a better solution for ASP.NET (using BeginRequest) at http://www.aspcode.net/ASPNET-301-redirect.aspx
Jerry West @ 10:53 pm
It was weak on purpose because a) I don’t use Windows servers anymore, b) see “a”.