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		<title>Avoiding A Possible Duplicate Content Penalty</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I previously wrote about 301 <a href="http://www.bettermychance.org/301-redirect-301-redirect-non-www-url-to-www-url.html">redirecting www to non www url</a> 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.</p>
<p>Google See&#8217;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</p>
<p>Here is what you do:</p>
<p>Options +FollowSymLinks<br />
RewriteEngine on<br />
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/<br />
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://<strong>www.bettermychance.org</strong>/ [R=301,L]</p>
<p>Replacing my domain above for yours.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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