I previously wrote about 301 redirecting www to non www url and vice versa to avoid a possibility of getting a duplicate content penalty, but the is another scenario where you can have two identical homepages.
Google See’s your domain. say www.bettermychance.org and www.bettermychance.org/index.php as two different pages with the same content on both. so a great way to solve this problem is by putting some code in your .htaccess file
Here is what you do:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.bettermychance.org/ [R=301,L]
Replacing my domain above for yours.
Now when anyone goes to your domain.com/index.php they will be redirected to your main URL thus eliminating the chance of a duplicate content penalty.
Tags: , Content Penalty, Google, htaccess, mod rewrite, Redirect, seo
09.Jan.08 
Oscommerce SEO, SEO Basics, Site Optimization 
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So you have read Oscommerce SEO - Part1 SEO URLs and you want to know how to further better your oscommerce store.
In part 2 now will cover dynamic meta tags, The main point of this contribution is the give each page of your store and products some unique meta content. (Title, Description and Keywords)
The reason for this is to improve your search engine position, and increase the amount of pages indexed, by creating dynamic meta tag for each product page, Google will see that each page a unique and not place the pages in the supplemental index thus also improving you search engine placement.
There are several oscommerce contributions that will do this, but the one i found that does this best is cDynamic Meta Tags.
It a very easy contribution to install, make sure you fully read the installation instructions and ALWAYS backup your store before do any modifications.
Once installed you can tweak the settings in /includes/languages/english/meta_tags.php
Tags: Oscommerce, Oscommerce Meta Tags, Oscommerce SEO, seo, SERPs
02.Dec.07 Oscommerce SEO Comments (0)
There are 2 main contributions that you will need to apply to a standard oscommerce install, the first one that i shall talk about today is called Ultimate SEO URLs.
What this osc contribution does is rewrites the standard dynamic URLs to more SE friendly and keyword rich URLs
in short it would turn a url from this:
www.domain.com/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=1
to something more descriptive like this:
www.domain.com/article-directory-turnkey-script-p-1.html
You can can clearly see how the second URL would be more descriptive and better picked up by search engines.
The installation is quite straight forward and well documented by Bobby AKA Chemo, but If you need help installing the contribution you can contact the store owner of this oscommerce hosting site. I highly recommend his work.
Tags: Oscommerce, Oscommerce SEO, seo, SEO URLs
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