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kt Posts: 195 Joined: 11/3/2004 Status: offline	301 help - 5/28/2006 9:15:44 Hi The default page of my site is indexed by search engines twice: http://www.mysite.com/ and http://www.mysite.com/index.asp I'm worried that this may be considered duplicate content and could be harming me. I removed all links and reference to index.asp long ago, but it stil gets indexed regularly. So I think the solution is a 301 redirect from www.mysite.com/index.asp to www.mysite.com/ Is there any problem in doing this - I'm not sure what kind of problems there could be, which is why I'm asking!... is it perfectly legal and okay simply to do this? Many thanks kt EDIT: Okay, on further research, it seems that a redirect is the best way to go. However, index and the root are spidered at diferent times, and as the page serves about 30% dynamic content, the cahed versions are different. So my question now is, is it a problem to do a 301 redirect from /index.asp to / if they (according to Google, for instance) have different content? Could this be considered as something like a doorway page? Does anyone have any views on this? Many thanks < Message edited by kt -- 5/31/2006 6:28:37 >


yb2 Posts: 653 Joined: 1/30/2006 Status: offline	RE: 301 help - 6/3/2006 10:32:12 I've done it, didn't harm my site as it's no 1 on Google for it's particular key words. Just pop the 301 in the header with a redirect and the old "This page has moved...blah blah" with a link to the new page. _____________________________ it is natural for people not to see one's own faults, and to exaggerate other people's faults and failings. Currently listening to: L'Enfer Des Formes by Stereolab (in reply to kt)


kt Posts: 195 Joined: 11/3/2004 Status: offline	RE: 301 help - 6/3/2006 17:34:55 Thanks yb2. When you did it, had Google already cached your index and root as diferent pages? (in reply to yb2)


yb2 Posts: 653 Joined: 1/30/2006 Status: offline	RE: 301 help - 6/3/2006 19:40:19 Yep, I did it just recently and when I do a search now the old page still comes up as no 2 in the rankings but goes straight through to the new one - so I suppose that makes it even better! The cached copy brings up the proper old one though. Nay bother really. _____________________________ it is natural for people not to see one's own faults, and to exaggerate other people's faults and failings. Currently listening to: L'Enfer Des Formes by Stereolab (in reply to kt)