Hello everybody,

I have just started SEO working on a website www.my-medicare.com which has PR 2.

Can I make a 301 redirect from http://www.my-medicare.com/index.php to http://www.my-medicare.com
on 'home' link on homepage and all other inner pages.

The PR of ../index.php is 3 while of www.my-medicare.com is 2.

Will this redirection help the site's PR to increase from PR 2 to PR 3?

Can this redirection create any problem as the page to be opened is index.php, whether you write www.my-medicare.com or www.my-medicare.com/index.php

Or I just simply change the link on 'home' button from http://www.my-medicare.com/index.php to http://www.my-medicare.com and it will work.

What will be the right thing to do here?

Pls help me as I am still learning the SEO working.

Thanks
Ashi

Yes all your backlinks will be counted in one location.
You will see the PR change in the next google PR export.

No problem! That is why we are all here. To help each other. :)

Oh and by the way. Welcome at WPW! ;)

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Thanks for your reply sir.

Earlier I asked the same question (about 301 redirection) to one of my seniors in our office, and following was his reply:

"The default page for http://www.my-medicare.com is index.php so if you type site name with or without index.php it will going to call index.php itself. The solution of redirection won't work because it will get a infinte loop of page calling and the page won't load."

Will it get in an infinite loop of page calling? Neither I understood it nor I was agreed with him. So I had to post it here.

I sent him the following codes used for redirecting? (Kindly check these codes if these will work fine or some changes are required, pls send me the changes if there is any)

301 redirect using .htaccess:
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redirect 301 /index.php http://www.my-medicare.com
(without using 'http://www' in first url)

The .htaccess file would then be uploaded to the same location where we have uploaded the index page at our OLD domain that we are redirecting from.

OR

301 Redirect using PHP (by simply adding this code to the page):
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<?
header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com/" );
?>

Waiting for your reply, Sir!!!

Thanks,
Ashish

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I used the above code in my .htaccess and it worked fine for that purpose untill I tried to access certain pages that have a string added on to index.php such as These pages are now inaccessible.

Is there a way to redirect only the index.php page without screwing with the others.


Ive got another quick question if both the index.php and the home page has for example a PR 3 will it increase next time around the home page page rank if I redirect the index.php to the homepage?

Sorry about the double post I was trying to fix the urls so they wouldnt show up like that I dont understand why since I only put in the urls not my meta description.

I also would like to place a redirect on my site and redirect myspacelayoutspimp.com/index.php to myspacelayoutspimp.com/

I used the above code in my .htaccess and it worked fine for that purpose untill I tried to access certain pages that have a string added on to index.php such as These pages are now inaccessible.

Is there a way to redirect only the index.php page without screwing with the others.


Ive got another quick question if both the index.php and the home page has for example a PR 3 will it increase next time around the home page page rank if I redirect the index.php to the homepage?

why would you want to do this?

index.php is the homepage! surely this would be creating an infinite loop

myspacelayoutspimp.com/ is myspacelayoutspimp.com/index.php so you are trying to redirect a page to itself!

infinite loop =

myspacelayoutspimp.com/index.php -> redirects to -> myspacelayoutspimp.com/
myspacelayoutspimp.com/ -> redirects to -> myspacelayoutspimp.com/index.php
myspacelayoutspimp.com/index.php -> redirects to -> myspacelayoutspimp.com/
myspacelayoutspimp.com/ -> redirects to -> myspacelayoutspimp.com/index.php
myspacelayoutspimp.com/index.php -> redirects to -> myspacelayoutspimp.com/ etc etc

just change the HOME link on your pages to <a href="/">HOME</a> instead of <a href="/index.php">HOME</a>

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I'm under the impression that it may be duplicate content issues.

Agreed. This one is one simple solution. just change all your home page link into a top directory as define above.
The result will be:
- your site won't be indexed as /index.php, so the rank won't be in this /index.php url for the next pr update.
- your next rank will be in / cause nobody will type /index.php when they need to open ur site. too hassle. unless they've bookmarked yours.

the reason why google indexed your /index.php, and pr3ed it, coz you gave this /index.php to google to crawl.

ashishdabas, I don't think your senior understood the situation you were describing. When I visit your site, I can view the same content at both the / and /index.php variations. This is duplicate content caused by canonicalization, which is where the server uses the same file to respond to requests for different URLs. In your case, this would not cause an infinite loop, since there is no pre-existing redirection in the opposite way.

digitalpimp, you would need to add a second parameter to compensate for query strings.

A few notes:

• I added a $ to signify the end of the request string to the first conditional. This will prevent the first rule from being processed if there is a query string.
• I added a slash to the beginning of the second rule. This should allow the rule to work with the root index as well as subfolders. You might need to test this to make sure it doesn't add an extra slash.

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