At my wits end: indexed as both the root domain AND index.asp

[asusplay]

I have had a lot of trouble since the Big Daddy fiasco since April. 2 of my sites went supplemental and were showing the non www versions as well as the www version. I fixed this doing 301 redirects. However Google is indexing my homepage as www.example.com and www.example.com/index.asp

I am on shared hosting using asp and have no access to IIS, so trying to do a redirect from /index.asp to the domain name results in an endless loop.

I can't seem to find a solution for this, has anyone successfully been able to solve this by not going through the IIS?

A possible workaround I am contemplating is by chaning the homepage from /index.asp to /default.asp and using a 301 redirect from the index page to the domain name (which would be default.asp)

Would this work in terms of the eys of google? like that the /index.asp would be eventually dropped and only the domain name would be indexed as a single version of that page, right? Would I also lose any PR by doing this? Or would google not see the difference between the two?

Any help / suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[tedster]

Are you seeing ranking problems for your Home Page, or just noticing this untidy listing on the site: results?

If you're still ranking for one or the other url, I would suggest letting Google sort it out for now. I would definitely not advise getting a third url into the mix. Setting up a default.asp might well make matters more confused.

[g1smd]

On Apache the required redirect is trivial, however I see this problem on a lot of forums, where both / and /index.php are indexed.

Make sure that every internal link points to just one version or the other and eventually Google will fix it at their end.

[steveb]

Get new hosting, anything else is a bandaid on a broken leg.

[TXGodzilla]

g1smd made a good point.

I've seen a lot of similar complaints on websites that have their HOME links mapped to the index page.

At one point, you had a link to index.asp, that is what prompted the listing. Changing the home page name and using a redirect could work to clean up your listings eventually but is it really worth the hassle?

If you are not planning on moving to a different host, relax and turn your attention to other details.

[steveb]

It's a major thing that causes problems for lots of sites, even if not all, so there should be no relaxing about it. This is a problem that everyone should fix.

[asusplay]

Well I've done renamed the homepage /default.asp and redirected the index.asp page to the domain name, and done the same in subfolders where the same thing happened.

This is a big problem. I am sure it is what has caused the site to have duplicate content penalties and a big part of why the site doesn not rank. I just hope that Goog decides to index it properly whenever it comes next time. But really I admit this sort of fix is vulnerable really.