8 replies to this topic

[proimpulse]

We have a new Etomite site up and have found that Google has indexed the domain name and www.domain.com/home.htm which is not going to be good.

Can I use the .htaccess file to resolve this issue?

I have tried several things and feel I am close but if I get the home.htm to resolve to the domain name it messes up the interior pages of the site and they show up with the CSS not working.

Thanks in advance!

[proimpulse]

Has nobody else run into this?

Thanks,
Anthony

[Ralph]

All of the various attempts I have tried on my server have caused errors... I've even poked around in the parser to see if there might be a way to resolve the issue there but haven't had enough time to fully sort it out...

[mikef]

I edit the menu snippet I'm using so that for the home page it just uses the domain name without the page alias.

For example, in my personal photography site I use this for the main menu snippet (based on MenuHori):

$separator=" | ";


$children = $etomite->getActiveChildren($id); $menu = ""; $childrenCount = count($children);
if($children==false) {
	return false;
}

for($x=0; $x<$childrenCount; $x++) {
	if ($x)$menu.=$separator;
	$title=$children[$x]['pagetitle'];
	if ($children[$x]['id'] == $etomite->documentIdentifier ) $listitem = "<b>$title</b>";
	else {
	  if ($children[$x]['id'] != 1) $listitem = "<a href='/[~".$children[$x]['id']."~]'>$title</a>";
	  else $listitem = "<a href='http://www.mikefinley.co.uk'>$title</a>";
	}
	$menu .= $listitem;
}

return $menu;

(This is stucturally the simplest of my sites, so has the easiest to read menu code!)

[cathode]

I'd set up a permanent redirect to index.html, I hear that google takes note of this

[gmschmitz]

Did anyone ever come up with a fix for this? Google is still indexing our home.htm

[jon]

I realize that this may earn me the Stupid Answer of the Month award, but why not just create a robots.txt file like the following?
User-agent: *
Disallow: /home.htm

[gmschmitz]

I'll give it a shot and see if Google stops indexing it.

[darren]

gmschmitz, on Jul 27 2008, 02:24 PM, said:

I'll give it a shot and see if Google stops indexing it.

If the domain is part of your google account (under webmaster tools) you can expedite the removal of that url by going to tools/remove urls.

from that page:
"
To block a page or image from your site, do one of the following, and then submit your removal request:

• Make sure the content is no longer live on the web. Requests for the page or image you want to remove must return an HTTP 404 (not found) or 410 status code. Help
  
• Block the content using a meta noindex tag. Help
  
• Block the content using a robots.txt file. Help

To remove your entire site, or a complete directory, use a robots.txt file. Help

Your content will then be removed from the index the next time Google crawls your site. If you need to expedite your content removal, make sure you have met one of the requirements listed above, and then select the New Removal Request button below to use this automated tool.

"