Multiple URL's for Home Page

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12/16/2011 12:00:07 PM

Phill

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Thanks Squire Dude

Multiple URL's for Home Page

Hi,

I am trying to understand all this Key Word, Key Title, Key Description, etc. and I recently went to Google (since they put us in this hole!) to try and get some answers. I got most of what they were saying and it helped understand the Key Words are not search in the hidden values but the actual page content as you told me earlier too.

So the current issue is that they are telling me that I have multiple URL's for the Home Page and I should only have 1!! What can I do to clean this up? I am thinking that it might have something to do with the 301 re-direct if I have changed the page's name? Or something like that but not exactly sure???

Here is the last couple of lines from Google Support...

Incidentally, each page should have exactly ONE preferred URL - your home page has at least six!

http://www.yachtlogsoftware.com/
http://www.yachtlogsoftware.com/default.aspx
http://www.yachtlogsoftware.com/1home.aspx (that's used in your menus)
http://yachtlogsoftware.com/

http://yachtlogsoftware.com/default.aspx

http://yachtlogsoftware.com/1home.aspx (that's used in your menus)

Thanks

Phill

12/16/2011 12:25:45 PM

Phill

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Thanks Squire Dude

Re: Multiple URL's for Home Page

Hi,

I am thinking that the 3 items... "www" and the three w/o the www are served up by the server not the page!

The .com/ and .com/default.aspx are also served up by the server and not the page!

Am I correct?

If that is so then the only item in question is the 301 re-direct from.com/Home.aspx to .com/1Home.aspx? Which I see in the 301 page in the app but not sure how I got to it? I have tried typing in .com/Home.aspx in the address bar but of course it redirects to 1Home.aspx

I deleted the 301 from the site... went back to the Home page and changes it from ~/1home.aspx to ~/home.aspx and not I get the following error...

The Url is already in use. You cannot use the same Url for different pages, unless you use the full Url with http. However, doing this will result in multiple Menu Pages pointing to the same actual page.

It resets the page to ~/1home.aspx

How can I fix this now?

Phill

12/16/2011 12:37:53 PM

Joe Audette

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Re: Multiple URL's for Home Page

Google should not be complaining about the multiple urls that work for your home page because in all cases the canonical url link is rendered in your head element indicating the authoritative url for the page:

though 1home.aspx is not the prettiest url and it probably did get that way by deleting and re-creating your home page somewhere along the way.

For more information see Optimizing Your Home Page Url for SEO, as well as this blog post from google about canonical urls.

12/16/2011 1:01:45 PM

Phill

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Thanks Squire Dude

Re: Multiple URL's for Home Page

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the links and info. All this SEO stuff can get really confusing!!!

Phill

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