Using just index.php makes 3 pages?

[Yamaha_R1]

On mysite.com I'm using index.php. Nothing more. But

[mysite.com...]
[mysite.com...]
[mysite.com...]
[mysite.com...]

Are all condisdered different pages to google. I don't understand. Especially since I'm using adsense, if you type in a variation it has not seen, the adds do not appear.

Now, all the posts i searched through, want to do something like covert www, or move to a root dir.

I just want google and other sites to think 'one page'.

I submitted [mysite.com...] (no slash or php) to a search engine, and it found NOTHING. I cant seem to get it right.

1. Whats the best one to use?
2. What would my code look like? Something like this?
3. Why do i have to do this? :(
4. When I implemented this code, I get internal server error.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com
RewriteRule (.*) [mysite.com...] [R=301,L]

[Yamaha_R1]

Oops. Did not realize 'mysite' exists. Also, owner edit button seems to have....dissapeared?

[vincevincevince]

First, you left it too long to edit (there is a short time frame)

Secondly, the way to do it is:

1/ Only ever refer to one of them. Link to the same one, submit the same one, use the same one.

2/ Set up redirection from the others to the one you have chosen if you continue to have problems.

3/ Make sure you have some links from other sites which are in Google etc. going towards the URL you want to get included.

[Yamaha_R1]

Yes, I will do. I want all of them to go to

[mysite.com...]

But thats not being recognized sometimes... I dont get it

Does googlebot not search an index.php when it searches a site?

[vincevincevince]

Google has no problem searching and indexing an index.php, none whatsoever.

Make sure you have some unique content on the page, it's not just a graphical flash intro or copied from somewhere else, and do make sure you have incoming links from other indexed pages.

[dcrombie]

You can't leave off the trailing '/' - most browsers and webservers will replace it automatically, but that's an extra call.

[Yamaha_R1]

Okay.

I guess the only dilema is, with adsense, if you go to the different variations, it counts them as different pages for adsense.

So I will stick to one format for everything, and not channel the others or link to the others.

Maybe that will clear up itself.

[py9jmas]

You can't leave off the trailing '/' - most browsers and webservers will replace it automatically, but that's an extra call.

That's true for sub-directories, ie http://www.example.com/directory but not for he plain domain name.
http://www.example.com doesn't exist. It's not a valid URL. If you connect to a webserver and send a GET request without any path, you'll get a 400 Bad Request response. When IE shows the URL as http://www.example.com, it's lying. It sent a request for / at a minimum.