www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/content refer to the same page

www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/content/ refer to the same page. Is that a problem (duplicate content) or is that OK?

The both show the CMS main page.

All article links etc. are preceeded with /content/ so it's only the main landing page I'm concerned about. (to /content/ or not to /content/ the main http://www.mysite.com URL)

Hello,

It's not advisable to show the same page through two different URLs, it will generate duplicated content issues. Please try to check this post for a workaround: vBSEO 3.5 Release Candidate 1 is here!

Thanks! But it is only the CMS index page, whenever an article is clicked, the link becomes http://www.mysite.com/content/article-1.html

Everything works perfectly (lot of issues fixed a short time ago in one single support ticket). Only thing is that mysite.com/ and mysite.com/content refer to the same CMS index page. I have no clue how to let 1 single URL point to http://www.mysite.com/ (the CMS index page).

All other CMS pages point to http://www.mysite.com/content/xxxxx.html which is fine by me (i have no http://www.mysite.com/xxxxx.html that points to the same article as http://www.mysite.com/content/xxxxx.html)

(it is as always a bit hard to explain, have a look at my site (d-dig.nl) and look at d-dig.nl/content and at d-dig.nl/)

That method only moves the HOME page to root. All articles will still load in the /content directive.
setting the CMS home as outlined in the link Andres provded above will put everything at / for the homepage.

I had this same exact question I was going to post... I noticed google has indexed my site as www.domain.com/ but yahoo has indexed my site as www.domain.com/content

With my site I did the www.domain.com redirect as the sole domain and setup a google webmaster tools account with the www. as the main site like the vbseo staff recommended... so if you type in my websit www.domain.com it redirects you to www.domain.com/content

On Yahoo my site fluctuates near the first couple pages for a popular key word search phrase, but on google I'm on like page 10 for that same keyword phrase. I thought it was weird that Google and Yahoo/Bing would have such different results I'm wondering if this is a big reason for why...?

Also I've created quite a few backlinks over the past few months and they all link to www.domain.com so I wonder if this /content is hurting that too?

I will look at Andres' link and try to get this fixed because something with this www.domain/content is not right and it seems like it may be hurting Google SEO pretty bad ...

set your CMS home to http://yourdomain.com/ as outlined in
vBSEO 3.5 Release Candidate 1 is here! - vBulletin SEO Forums

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

set your CMS home to http://yourdomain.com/ as outlined in
vBSEO 3.5 Release Candidate 1 is here! - vBulletin SEO Forums

I followed your directions Brian and got it to work thanks for breaking everything down step by step man it made it much easier to understand for newbies. So now when you type my domain the homepage no longer has the /content its now www.domain.com/

I also changed the forum rewrite rules so the forum homepage changed from www.domain.com/forum.php to www.domain.com/forum/

Sweet glad to see no more content! This change should help quite a bit now huh?

By the way whats the second part of your post meant for Brian the part that says:
/forums (or another folder name) vb4 install

Are those directions meant for people who did not have their CMS in the root folder?

Thanks again

correct, that's for those whom have vb installed in site.com/forums/ or another /folder/ name of choice.

Problem solved, thank you!