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Internal linking - which is better

www.foo.com/widgets/ or www.foo.com/widgets/index.php

         

5x54u

4:58 pm on Oct 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Within a site's internal linking method in the <a href>, is it best to link this way:

www.foo.com/widgets/index.php

or -

www.foo.com/widgets/

Thakn you for opinions.

[edited by: 5x54u at 5:03 pm (utc) on Oct. 29, 2005]

walkman

5:02 pm on Oct 29, 2005 (gmt 0)



>> www.foo.com/widgets/

but only use ONE method as you'll have a dupe problem in your hands

5x54u

5:07 pm on Oct 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Thanks Walkman I do use only the one (/widgets/ )but people are linking to me with the index.php in their href organically.

Take a look at this thread I posted yesterday but can not get a reply (has to do with re-directing the index.php to /widget/)

[webmasterworld.com...]

Thanks for quick reply

g1smd

6:19 pm on Oct 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

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End with the folder name and trailing / so that you can change the index page name to whatever your want at any time in the future without having to change any of the internal links on your site.

5x54u

6:37 pm on Oct 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Thanks all - does anyone know the best way on a IIS box to re-direct the /widgets/index.php that organic linkers linking to /widgets/.

I do not have re-write capabilities and could do with PHP - need advice. Do I place a 301 on top of index.php to location: http:www.foo.com/widgets/ to eliminate the dupe issue I am getting on G?

g1smd

7:10 pm on Oct 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

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A 301 redirect could do it, but no idea how to do that with IIS.

Look into ISAPI rewrite, perhaps.