| Page redirects & duplicate pages vs spiders
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tomw1944
msg:266494 | 3:06 pm on Feb 15, 2003 (gmt 0) |
My Web Page Creator (WebEasy Professional) always creates an "index.html" that simply REDIRECTS viewers to my home page. Will this cause spiders to not reject my page? I have been advised by others to delete to the index.html file and replace it with a renamed copy of my home page. That is, rename a copy of my home page to "index.html" Will having 2 pages (my home page and the index.html) containing exactly the same script cause spiders to reject my page? Tom
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andreasfriedrich
msg:266495 | 3:22 pm on Feb 15, 2003 (gmt 0) |
tomw1944 [webmasterworld.com] wrote at 03:06 AM on Feb. 15, 2003 in message #1 [webmasterworld.com] | I have been advised by others to delete to the index.html file and replace it with a renamed copy of my home page. That is, rename a copy of my home page to "index.html" |
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You donīt need to rename your homepage to index. Simply use DirectoryIndex [httpd.apache.org] to change the file Apache [httpd.apache.org] looks for when a UA requests a directory. On other servers there are similar options as well. tomw1944 [webmasterworld.com] wrote at 03:06 AM on Feb. 15, 2003 in message #1 [webmasterworld.com] | Will having 2 pages (my home page and the index.html) containing exactly the same script cause spiders to reject my page? |
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Probably not. They will just index one of those pages. Google will choose the one with higher PR.
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tomw1944
msg:266496 | 11:27 pm on Feb 15, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Andreas, Thanks for your reply. Q:1 If I don't replace the current "index.html", the index.html will REDIRECT the user to my home page. The question is . . .whether spiders will reject my page because of the duplication. Q:2 I think your answer of "Probably not" although not a firm answer, may let my duplicated page get by the spider. Does anyone else have an opinion? Tom
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