g1smd
msg:3774517 | 6:51 pm on Oct 27, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Link to "/" within your site and set up a 301 redirect that redirects index.html and index.htm and index.php back to "/" for root. Make that redirect work for the root and for all folders, stripping the index filename off for all (and preserving the rest of the path). Details and code can be found in the WebmasterWorld Apache forum.
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FromBelgium
msg:3774562 | 7:49 pm on Oct 27, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Thanks g1smd! Can you direct me to a specific post? I already link to "/" and I get the error for 50 pages already linking to "/". It seems that the server sometimes (when Google visits) redirects "/" to "index.html".
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antoineFR
msg:3774655 | 10:29 pm on Oct 27, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Hello ! I have the same trouble in a french site. Did you have a sudden drop of trafic ? Cheers.
Antoine.
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tedster
msg:3774712 | 12:05 am on Oct 28, 2008 (gmt 0) |
| It seems that the server sometimes (when Google visits) redirects "/" to "index.html". |
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That's something to track down and fix - most esepcially if search engine bots are being treated differently than the regular browsers. The domain root (or directory root) should resolve directly with no redirects needed. Here's a thread that discusses the domain root versus index.html issue in more detail: [webmasterworld.com...]
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