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 /
?

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.

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__/ [ Big Bill ] on Thursday 17 August 2006 06:47 \__

> 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.

Probably depends on the software that runs the server. Could be LiteSpeed,
for example. I wonder if there is a front-end like cPanel or Plesk to all of
this. Makes life much easier by generating the code... Surely, on the other
hand, front end don't allow the user to be expressive, although some might
support regex (which complicates the front-end).

Best wishes,

Roy

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>
> Also, in general, on pages where Google has indexed both / and /index.html
> is it good to redirect the index.html to /
> ?


In my opinion it is good
because right now, without redirect and with duplicated pages in Google
index,
you are spreading page rank away




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Big Bill wrote:

> 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.

Thanks. I'll try that. It's a Dreamweaver template, so I'm not sure about
the best way to convert the links across a 300 page site without breaking
the template. I would just find-replace all /index.html to / in the
directory, but I'm not sure what that would do to the Dreamweaver template.

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Probably depends on the software that runs the server. Could be LiteSpeed,
> for example. I wonder if there is a front-end like cPanel or Plesk to all
> of this. Makes life much easier by generating the code... Surely, on the
> other hand, front end don't allow the user to be expressive, although some
> might support regex (which complicates the front-end).

It's Apache on Yahoo hosting. I haven't been in the CP yet and I'm not sure
what it is...

Can you do this automatically with cPanel?

__/ [ .oO[x] ] on Friday 18 August 2006 17:31 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Probably depends on the software that runs the server. Could be LiteSpeed,
>> for example. I wonder if there is a front-end like cPanel or Plesk to all
>> of this. Makes life much easier by generating the code... Surely, on the
>> other hand, front end don't allow the user to be expressive, although some
>> might support regex (which complicates the front-end).
>
> It's Apache on Yahoo hosting. I haven't been in the CP yet and I'm not
> sure what it is...
>
> Can you do this automatically with cPanel?

Yes, it's click-and-droll with CP.

Go to icon named redirection; at the top, enter target URL and source, then
press 'add redirection' (I am speaking from memory here, so the names may
vary). Yahoo is notorious for safe-moding their hosted accounts. I hope they
permit you to do something so fundamental though.