Duplicate content?

A small doubt

[chandramohan]

what about this
domainname.com and domainname.com/index.html

Will search engines will consider it for duplicate content ...?

[taps]

yes, they will.

[successlieswithme]

y duplicate?

they same points to same address,
then how they can become copied.

[andrea99]

Is there a mod_rewrite code that would fix it?

maybe this:

redirect 301 /index.htm [domain.com...]

[Miop]

I did that and got a loop -

I'm using this at the moment which seems to be working

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

Obviously change php for htm or whatever.

[Miop]

PS. I also had a dupe problem with index.php and / with G thinking they are two different pages. I used the redirect as mentioned but also made certain that all links in my site which were pointing to index.php were just pointing to /. I then put a small link to index.php at the top of the page to make sure G still found direction to index.php in order to gather the redirect.
Problem was fixed within 12 days of being spidered by G.

[branchseo]

I did the same Miop, I had a problem with it at the start, but changed all links to the home page to just "www.domain.com" instead of "www.domain.com/index.html" and when requesting links or submitting to directories I always used "http://www.domain.com/"

That seemed to work for me.

[John_1976]

How moronic is Google that it cannot distinguish between domainname.com and domainname.com/index.html. What an irony it is that webmasters have to find some fix to solve a Google problem.