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funkypilchard · #1 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007, 02:45 PM

Hello folks, I have been working on a web site and I have a query that is bugging me.

Quite simply there are two index (or home) pages on my web site.

one is mywebsite.com.index.html and mywebsite.com

The mywebsite.com page comes up when you arrive at the site from google and it has a page rank of 4 but...

If you click on any home link from within the site you arrive at mywebsite.com/index.html with 0 page rank

I know this is very simple but I have to ask, and does it matter?

Thanks :armada40:

Bagi Zoltán · #2 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007, 03:15 PM

I think you are talking about the typical joomla breadcrumb navigation question. I'm sure by correcting your template file, you will be able to correct it and concentrate the PR for the home instead of sharing that. I know a joomla site which has a home page with PR1 and the site.com/index.html has PR3. There is no reason to share the PR and duplicate content.

Hope it helps

funkypilchard · #3 (**permalink**) 06-01-2007, 12:45 PM

Thank you both, very helpful as usual.

Bagi Zoltán · #4 (**permalink**) 06-05-2007, 06:34 AM

Richard, finally i found the code into the .htaccess, which will solve the redirect.

Quote:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# index.php to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]