By TWD on

For example, if you build a front page on a node at http://example.com/home, then just enter "home" into the "Default front page" Site Settings.

This creates a duplicate front page URL: http://example.com/home will show the same content as http://example.com/

I was under the impression that Global Redirect Module is some kind of fix for that.
Yet, I installed the module and I still have access to both URLs i.e. the Node URL doesn't
reload as the Root URL.

My concern is that this will have SEO issues by diluting PageRank when half the incoming links
are addressed to http://example.com/home -vs- http://example.com/

Any advice how to handle this?

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derekwebb1’s picture

derekwebb1 commented

If you are creating a node to be your home page, then don't give it an alias (or if you do let it use an automatic one - and never reference that alias). If that alias changes then you will find that your home page no longer works. Use the node id in the settings. So set the site settings home page field to node/[home-nid].

Then canonical will do it's job just fine - If my understanding of what canonical does is accurate...

Cheers, Derek

TWD’s picture

TWD commented

Thank you, sir.

That works like a treat !