trendoman wrote: @diverso,
When Google bot visits your page at this address: http://www.designdiverso.com
it indexes the content it gets. After that, it happens to visit this link http://www.designdiverso.com/index.html and it thinks it is a different page. Bot indexes the content and now sees that content is the same. Sites with duplicated content are ranged lower in SERP.
What i told you to do is to get some knowledge on this. Search for a complete solution to this with help of .htaccess file. You seem to ignore
I don't mind that at all. If you are in rush, i'm sure there are many seo in-knows available locally.
There is a couch version of permanent redirects. More read here: http://docs.couchcms.com/tags-reference/redirect.html
Reference for links:
http://docs.couchcms.com/tags-reference/link.html
http://docs.couchcms.com/concepts/pretty-urls.html
I strongly advise you to follow the tutorial or refresh it if you did.
http://docs.couchcms.com/tutorials.html
Looks, you need to get back to basics and there is nothing wrong with that. Unless you want to end up grasping the tops and leave roots in soil. As an example of such waste of resource is your removed slash in some arbitrary way and place. You were given an example of how to do it properly for the mentioned template.
@trendoman
my bad thought you meant to help me out with this, first of all just can't understand where that index.html is coming from is not in my root so where is it?
secondly I can't understand exactly what you mean by the above, where can I find seo knows-in thought that couch cms forum was meant for helping with these kind of issues, are you suggesting I look for solutions elsewhere?
I can't get a hold of the developer who helped with this, so shall I just migrate to another cms instead? what do you suggest to do?