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July 1st, 2008, 08:33 AM
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Duplicate Title Tags
I use google webmaster tools.
Under content analysis they are showing Title tag issues The issue is duplicate title tags. The problem is the duplicats are for the exact same page because they are reading my page once with the index.php and once without. See below. Meridian Idaho Portrait Photographer - Timson Studio /portrait/meridian/ /portrait/meridian/index.php Can anyone advise me on how I can solve this problem. I dont want google to get confused and think I have duplicate content when I dont.
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July 1st, 2008, 08:37 AM
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you need a permenant 301 redirect to the root.
So; in the index.asp you will have a redirect to / you then want to make the primary file to be something abscure so for instance index_websitename.asp so that no one will go to it and google will not find it. That way google will consider the / and the index.asp the same pages. (or rather it will be the same page)
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July 1st, 2008, 08:41 AM
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I am a bit dumb this morning and dont completly understand what you mean with the abscure name. Could I solve this by setting a rule that if the url ends in / to redirect to /index.php?
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July 1st, 2008, 08:49 AM
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He mentionned index.php, not index.asp. Easy to solve by adding the following code at the beginning of your index.php file: Code:
<?
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == "/index.php")
{
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']."/");
exit;
die("Redirection");
}
?>
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July 1st, 2008, 09:15 AM
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how will this redirect effect my rankings for my index.php files that already rank well as index.php? how will this effect me short and long term?
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July 1st, 2008, 10:13 AM
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Dont even consider this! if you have links coming in to your index.php page. you will lose all of them. redirecting them into one will ensure that all juice is passed over to one. Also you may want to make your website have either http://www. or http://. This will ensure you have 1 homepage and not 4 
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#7
July 1st, 2008, 08:30 PM
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There will be some minor fluctuations in ranking due to this redirects. It is because the old URL will be gone in Google and the new one will appear. This type of change will tend to stabilize within 3 to 6 months and your ranking will regain. Assuming all the ranking factors are still within place.
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July 2nd, 2008, 05:01 AM
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Use synonym forms. it will carry the sama sense your original keywords had cause Google has tools for recognizing synonyms forms of key words
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July 2nd, 2008, 08:53 PM
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Here is what happened...My sitemap file was an XML file that was being generated automatically every day. When I had a link set on my site it would link to the index.php page but the XML file was linking to just /. My programmer tweaked this and now my sitemap links are showing the index.php. I assume this will solve the problem. Does anyone disagree?
I am surprised google doesn't automatically understand its the same file
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July 5th, 2008, 11:42 PM
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Any other solution
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Is there any alternative because i have alot of subfolders and each with an index so entering above code to every page is a difficult job
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July 7th, 2008, 10:08 AM
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ok...this issue has me confused. I thought I had this resolved but my duplicate title and duplicate description tag warnings are increasing in my google webmaster tools. I have all of my links in the site pointing to /index.php not just / whenever a dir has an index in it BUT google still seems to be attempting to index both
i.e. /simi_valley2/ and /simi_valley2/index.php It sees this as duplicates because its all the same file my sitemap also only links to /simi_valley2/index.php any suggestions?
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July 10th, 2008, 04:41 PM
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Yep, seeing an increase in warnings from slow page load time to short descriptions, long descriptions, to many redirects, etc etc etc
All recent. Seems google has improved its data reporting to webmasters, which is a good thing.
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July 10th, 2008, 05:26 PM
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what I am seeing looks more like a google glitch. If I have an index.php file in a folder it reads the file twice and reports a deuplicate title tag
It is seeing two identicle pages when there is only one 1) /foldername/index.php 2)/foldername/
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