Help needed with a duplication error please

I am just analysing one of my sites and I am getting a few duplication errors coming up for a couple of pages - www.domain.com and www.domain.com/index.html. Obviously these are the same page and I can't set up a redirect because that would cause an indefinite redirect loop. Is there anything I can do about this? What do others do?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Anyone? Some clever person on the forum must know the answer!

Rugbyjack,

Have you tried the redirect? I've redirected extensions like this and it works just fine. Also, have you used rel="canonical" to let search know which root is the right one to index?

Here is a tutorial that may help,

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/4666.htm

Best,

Shawn

TheContentAuthority said:

Rugbyjack,

Have you tried the redirect? I've redirected extensions like this and it works just fine. Also, have you used rel="canonical" to let search know which root is the right one to index?

Here is a tutorial that may help,

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/4666.htm

Best,

Shawn

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Thanks Shawn. That redirect code works. I didn't think this was possible because domain.com was getting the code from domain.com/index.html and by redirecting the domain.com/index.hmtl to domain.com, you were creating an indefinite redirect loop. Not sure how this code gets around this but it does!