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        • romanbond
          romanbond last edited by

          Hi, I was wondering if there is a safe way to consolidate link juice on a single version of a home page. I find incoming links to my site that link to both mysite.com/ and mysite.com/index.html. I've decided to go with mysite.com/ as my main and only URL for the site and now I'd like to transfer all link juice from mysite.com/index.html to mysite.com/
          When i tried 301 redirect from index.html to the root it created an indefinite loop, of course.

          I know I can use a RewriteRule.., but will it transfer the juice??

          Please help!

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          • Nikos-Kor
            Nikos-Kor @StreamlineMetrics last edited by

            @streamlinemetrics this worked for my site Finbit Solutions, too! Thank you very much!

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            • salena580
              salena580 @StreamlineMetrics last edited by

              It works good for my site https://uaedesertsafari.com/

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              • wideangle
                wideangle @StreamlineMetrics last edited by

                works, thank you!

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                • almusammem
                  almusammem @StreamlineMetrics last edited by

                  Thank you very much, this works fine with me.

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                  • webfeatus
                    webfeatus last edited by

                    Google may see this as a 301 but MOZ crawl does not seem to.
                    Can you please help explain this?

                    I am looking for a good .htaccess code for this redirect.

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                    • enxaqueca
                      enxaqueca last edited by

                      Thank you, Streamline Metrics. I looked everywhere and tried several different edits in my htaccess for a 301 redirect from index.html to root, but none worked. Your code worked wonderfully.

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                      • romanbond
                        romanbond @StreamlineMetrics last edited by

                        that seems to be working well. thanks a lot for your help.

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                        • StreamlineMetrics
                          StreamlineMetrics @romanbond last edited by

                          If you want to redirect all index.html(s) to their roots, then try this code -

                          RewriteEngine On
                          RewriteRule ^index.html$ / [R=301,L]
                          RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

                          And yes, Google will treat them as 301 redirects so your juice will be transferred and consolidated.

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                          • romanbond
                            romanbond @StreamlineMetrics last edited by

                            thanks, that was quick!
                            A couple of questions before i go ahead and implement it:

                            will this rule re-direct all index.html(s) to their appropriate roots or will it work just for the home page?
                            Also, as far as user's expirience is concerned this will take care of redirecting requests to show index.html to the root, but what about the juice transfer. Will Google treat it as 301?

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                            • StreamlineMetrics
                              StreamlineMetrics last edited by

                              It's definitely a good idea to 301 redirect index.html to your root to consolidate link juice. I am assuming you have an .htaccess file so the following lines should work -

                              RewriteEngine On
                              RewriteBase /

                              redirect html pages to the root domain

                              RewriteRule ^index.html$ / [NC,R,L]

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