Google getting my index.php

Regular Joined: Aug 06, 2008 Posts: 65

Hello!
I noticed that Google is indexing my .com and my .com/index.php together, which is, the same thing, MAJOR double content. Can anyone help me or direct me on how to use my .htaccess or something to make them to drop the index.php file from their index, and only use my homepage? thanks!

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:18 pm

in .htaccess

Under RewriteEngine on

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

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:29 pm

You would have the same problem with any site as Apache will try to find index.htm, index.html, home.htm, home.html, index.php from the root domain if no file is specified. The exact sequence and number of files it will look for is dependent on the server configuration.

It is far more important to ensure the links either have the www or not in the url and to be consistent with that as search engined do see those as duplicate content.

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6432

Part of the problem is that many themes and the modules block link Home to the index.php file, rather than to /. Changing that will also help, and it will help your pagerank, too, as Google sees [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] as different from [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

I replaced index.php with / in the upcoming nukeNAV, but, as I said, it still needs to be removed in most themes.