If you do the mod rewrite correctly (301 redirect) you will not have a duplicate content issue. A 301 rewrite indicates that the page has permanently moved to the new file location. You not only have to be concerned about duplicate content -- you also want to be sure that you don't lose the indexing you currently have for the old pages.

I have tried to find the code for a proper 301 redirect but being the noob that I am, I am having alittle trouble understanding how to write it, and more so once its written where does it go. Thiuis sounds like exactly what I need but cant fgure it out.......running out of time..........shhhhh the crawlers are a comin'........help!!!

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Pocono Pennsylvania Real Estate Agent
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Well using the program gcrawl I was able to see what pages werent showing up due to the name change and was able to go back and put back the ld page names, so at least for now I will be ok when the crawl comes around. And I probly wont worry about changing the page names. They weren't to bad anyway. Still interested to learn more about the 301 redirect so if I do need to change names later on I can do it right this time

Thanks all for the responses.

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Dave Kovaleski REALTOR
Pocono Pennsylvania Real Estate Agent
Pocono Real Estate
Pocono Homes
Lake Wallenpaupack Real Estate

You need to be running Apache, have mod_rewrite enabled on your server, and have ftp access to the site. You may have an existing file in the main root directory of your site called .htaccess If so, download it and add your 301 redirects to your page. ***Make a backup copy of the original before doing so -- if you mess anything up, you can quickly restore the backup copy. Also, do not mess with your .htaccess file if you have used Frontpage extensions to upload your website***

If you don't have an existing .htaccess file, just open up Notepad, or any text editor, and create one. You must save the file with no extension, and with the preceding period.

To create your redirects, add the following to the file, on one continuous line:

While you're in there, you might also consider directing all traffic to the www version of your website. You can do so by adding these lines:

Well this was a big disaster, I figured this morning I would just change all the namse back to the old ones, since google webmaster tools was still saying my site wasnt crawled since feb 5. But ........after renaming the pages, i discovered that I can search my indexed pages in google by searching site: poconoareamls.com. Sooooo after renaming my pages to the old convention I search my site and realize that some of my pages where in fact indexed since I chanage the names. In google web master tools it says that "my home page hasent been crawled since feb 5th" so with that i realized that other pages where re crawled. Soooo since it was too late for some of the pages that where rename I changed thme back to the new name.....again.

"breath" inhale.....exhale....inhale.....

So that brings me to this question. I now see pages of mine showing up as "supplemental results" when I search site: poconoareamls.com and look for ommited pages, again assuming this is because of the renaming. Do these suplemented pages hurt me in anyway? As in duplictate content?

Another thing is that the program gcrawler is telling me I have duplicate content between www.poconoareamls.com and www.poconoareamls.com/index.html, why would that be? since your home page is always named index right? And that page name has never been changed.

Sorry this is longwinded I am just panicing here. Thanks for all the help so far.

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Dave Kovaleski REALTOR
Pocono Pennsylvania Real Estate Agent
Pocono Real Estate
Pocono Homes
Lake Wallenpaupack Real Estate

Relax

Step 1. Set up your pages with your new names.

Step 2. Set up 301 redirects from the old page names to the new.

Step 3. Go through your site and check your links. Links to your homepage should always be www.poconoareamls.com, and never www.poconoareamls.com/index.html. Google does indeed see those as two different pages.

Step 4. Go to a movie, go for a hike in the woods, go hang out with your family and friends for a while. Give Google time to process the 301s and figure out what you really want your pages to be. Don't look at your position in the SERPs for a while. Don't look at your search results for a while. It takes time, and patience, but if you follow steps 1-3, you'll get it sorted out.