I am attempting to make my website perform better on search engines. One of the problems I ran into is that when I have my site crawled the search engines are finding 2 versions of the home page:
1. www.thecentraloffice.net
and
2. www.thecentraloffice.net/index.html
I'm wanting to 301 redirect #2 to #1. That would pass all of the link juice and benefits of #2 to #1 and the search engines would not score me low due to duplicate content (which is the current issue).
After reading an SEO forum and Google's WMT I found a prompt that would help me understand how to set up the redirect but I asked tech support and they said that Sonic is using a "custom patch" of Apache. I need someone to give me instructions on how to set up a 301 redirect in a way that works with Sonic's servers. I think it involves the .htaccess file?
1. www.thecentraloffice.net
and
2. www.thecentraloffice.net/index.html
I'm wanting to 301 redirect #2 to #1. That would pass all of the link juice and benefits of #2 to #1 and the search engines would not score me low due to duplicate content (which is the current issue).
After reading an SEO forum and Google's WMT I found a prompt that would help me understand how to set up the redirect but I asked tech support and they said that Sonic is using a "custom patch" of Apache. I need someone to give me instructions on how to set up a 301 redirect in a way that works with Sonic's servers. I think it involves the .htaccess file?
