/default.aspx and "/" .why is it indexing duplicate pages

[Whitey]

We have launched an upgraded site and all our URL's should be ending in "/" to avoid duplicate content, but we keep finding sporadic duplicate pages with TBPR & indexing in Google with a /default.aspx extension

No default.aspx pages exist according to Xenu

We're lost. Any ideas what our programmers may have missed?

[edited by: Whitey at 11:23 am (utc) on Jan. 18, 2008]

[pageoneresults]

Any ideas what our programmers may have missed?

Do a Find for default.aspx. You'll find the references. If they are not there, then someone is linking to you with the default.aspx reference. You'll need to set up a 301 so they cannot browse directly to the root document.

[marcel]

How do you setup a 301 for default.aspx?

When querying 'Request.Url' you always recieve default.aspx as part of the string.

Is there a better way of querying the URL?

[Whitey]

Do a Find for default.aspx

I did a search in google : oursitename /default.aspx - This revealed 293 pages/URL's 12 hours ago and 304 just now.

pageoneresults - Is this OK or is there a better way to find these results? Strange that Xenu didn't pick it up, everyone raves about it as a good tool and it's been helpful in the past.

How do you setup a 301 for default.aspx?

My point to - I guess this is common but how do you 301 redirect this to "/"as the root?

Anyone out there? Help :)

[Whitey]

I just wanted to clarify that I got the heads up on Xenu , it doesn't follow forms. They said it's a Google / server issue.

[pageoneresults]

How do you setup a 301 for default.aspx?

It has do to be done through a rewrite. There are no facilities that I am aware of out of the box with IIS and .NET that will allow you to trim that /default.aspx.

Based on the .NET stuff I work with, none of that /default.aspx is really accessible to bots anyway. I believe all of it is in Postbacks and those things are invisible to bots.