index page verse the .com home page

[Dave Kovaleski]

I seem to be having an issue. Yesteray my site was on page 30 with the just the .com of my home page (no /index.html) today however I am on age 36 with the /index.html version of my home page.
And the .com of my home page is no where to be found.

I did have a propblem last week that I thought I resolved. I had links to my home page linking to the /index.html instead of just to the .com so I was getting a duplicate content problem, but I since fixed those links.

Its been suggested before that I may need to do a 301 redirect for some of the pages that I had mistakingly renamed afteer they where indexed. Do I need to do a 301 redirect for my index page to point it towards just the .com version of my home page? If so can someone please paste the script I would need. I am not suer I am finding exactly what I need online.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Dave Kovaleski]

Really hoping for a response here. When I do a site : poconoareamls.com search on google the first page listed is my communities page, followed by my index, the first item to come up should be just the www poconoareamls.com. right?

Not sure what goin on :/

[VRI]

Most of my sites are on Windows servers (asp) so I'm no mod-rewrite expert but I googled it and found this. Hope it helps.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/4899.htm

[pcdoc]

See here

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-ad...onicalization/

and here

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archiv...anonical_urls/

[Dave Kovaleski]

So, I had internal links to my home page that where to the /index file instead of just to the www.mysite.com. file, I belive this is why I now have index.html and my .com both being indexed, I fixed the imternal link, would it now be ok to 301 rediect the index.html to the www.mysite.com. instead? or is that a mistake?

[webmaster]

Nope it is fine, 301 redirect the index to the .com and it will resolve itself It does take time for Google to recrawl and drop pages from the index, can take several months to drop a previously cached page.

[Dave Kovaleski]

Sweet! Thanks! Off to craft the redirect!