On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:06:08 -0400, ".oO[x]" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
wrote:

>A 300-page site with many links to pages like this:
>
>example.com/directory/stuff/index.html
>
>Is it worth changing them to:
>
>example.com/directory/stuff/
>
>Should there also be 301 redirects from every /directory/index.html
>to /directory/
>?
>
>It doesn't have many IBLs, and very little traffic.
>
>Also, in general, on pages where Google has indexed both / and /index.html
>is it good to redirect the index.html to /
>?

You mean should you have something like this in your .htaccess file?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(([^/]+/)*)index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule index\.html$ http://www.example.com/%1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Probably, yes. I'll let Bokma pick that one apart.

BB



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