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Two URLs that you can use to hit the homepage – SEO

Having a sitecore website. Situation is for every country, there are two URLs that you can use to hit the homepage.

www.abc.com/en/home

and

www.abc.com/en

We only want one – this is bad for both SEO and analytics.
I want to retire www.abc.com/en/home and want www.abc.com/en to only work.

I already worked with embedded URL = always in web.config but didn’t worked for me.

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    With the help of you guys all finally my bug is resolved and I came up with code which works in every situation like appended query string or without it.

    string baseUrl = Sitecore.Links.LinkManager.GetItemUrl(Sitecore.Context.Item);
                if (baseUrl.ToLower().Contains("?"))
                {
                    baseUrl = Request.RawUrl.Substring(0, Request.RawUrl.IndexOf("?"));
                }
                string Qurl = Request.RawUrl;
                string AppendedUrl = string.Empty;

                if (Qurl.ToLower().Contains("?"))
                { 
                    Qurl = Request.RawUrl.Substring(0, Request.RawUrl.IndexOf("?")); 
                    AppendedUrl = Request.RawUrl.Substring(Qurl.Length);
                }
                string fullPath = baseUrl + AppendedUrl;
                if (baseUrl != Qurl)
                {
                    Response.RedirectPermanent(fullPath);
                }
            }
        }

    Try this :)


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    If you use LanguageEmbedding.Always in the LinkManager.
    Links generated with the Sitecore LinkManager have always a language code.
    But the other urls will also work.

    You can use a Canonical see Tip 17 for search engines.

    Or you can do a redirect if the url not match with the url you want.

    Or block/redirect the url’s in you netwerk/loadbalancer/webserver or redirect module or Sitecore <httpRequestBegin>pipeline. (just what you find convenient)

    A simple solution is place a peace of code in your master page something like this:

    string baseUrl = LinkManager.GetItemUrl(Sitecore.Context.Item);
if (baseUrl != Request.Path)
{
    Response.RedirectPermanent(baseUrl);
}

    Also works for url aliases.

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    Use the IIS URL Rewrite module with the following rule:

    <rule name="Redirect home" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="^/en/home/?$" />
    <action type="Redirect" url="/en/" />
</rule>
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