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[lister]

What I mean is -

Are both of these going to point to the same page and get indexed as the same page?

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html   http://www.mysite.com/folder/index.html 
Redirect 301 /oldpage.html   http://www.mysite.com/folder/

I.e. I am 301-ing the index page in /folder/

THANKS

Edited by Jill, 27 April 2012 - 05:58 PM.
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[Jill]

They may be pointing to the same page, but they are obviously pointing to two different URLs. Choose one or the other.

[chrishirst]

I.e. I am 301-ing the index page in /folder/

All you will do there cause a "redirect loop" because the "index page" IS
what is served out for a request to a URI ending in '/'

[lister]

OK - but just to be 100% - are you sure that this will create a re-direct loop?

( I am placing the below index.html into "new folder" )

redirect 301 /old-folder/index.html http://www.my-site.com/new-folder/

The reason I prefer NOT to give the full path is because I prefer to have my urls just show the folder - to create this http://my-site/new-folder/ rather than this: http://my-site/new-folder/page.html (i.e. I prefer NOT to show the page.html)

thanks

[lister]

What I mean is - do search engines treat the index file in a folder as a file that can be indexed?

So - http://my-site.com/folder/ is the same as http://my-site.com/folder/index.html ?

What if you have internal linking that links to both the folder level AND the index.html - would that be considered as being two seperate files?

I guess consistency is vital right?

Edited by lister, 28 April 2012 - 03:48 PM.

[Jill]

What if you have internal linking that links to both the folder level AND the index.html - would that be considered as being two seperate files?

Yes. Don't do that.

[chrishirst]

What I mean is - do search engines treat the index file in a folder as a file that can be indexed?

User agents have no idea what your "index" page is actually named, they just request a URI and the server sends a stream of data as a response

What if you have internal linking that links to both the folder level AND the index.html - would that be considered as being two seperate files?

The only thing to understand is that search engines index URLs, and if two or more URLs return the same document it IS a duplicate.

OK - but just to be 100% - are you sure that this will create a re-direct loop?

( I am placing the below index.html into "new folder" )

redirect 301 /old-folder/index.html http://www.my-site.com/new-folder/

That won't cause a loop, redirecting /folder/index_page_name.ext to /folder/ will.