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IIS6 web setup and redirected page

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Apr 28.2006

I have several web sites on windows 2003 server running IIS6. These are setup in the normal way according to the Microsoft instructions.

Using Dr Watson, it reports that the website was redirected to another page which is [url]/default.html.

In Google, a search of my page title returns a listing for the domain name and an indented sub listing for the redirected page, as above.

I am having trouble with my Google ranking and am concerned that this redirection may be hurting my ranking, or that Google may interpret this as a duplicate or identical page and penalise my ranking as a rsult.

I want to know if I can prevent this redirection from occurring or being visible?

I am not using meta data or javascript to cause the redirection, it is being done by IIS6.

Mark Horrocks

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@ray326Apr 28.2006 — That's one of the IIS standard index pages. You could try removing them all from the list and see what happens. That would force the browser to "hunt" for your index page and I'm not too sure how well that would work out for you.
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@markhorrocksauthorApr 28.2006 — Thanks for the reply. The page is not a standard IIS6 index page. default.htm would be but default.html is not. This may be the reason but I doubt it.

I have actually deleted all the standard index pages from IIS6 documents tab.
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@ray326Apr 28.2006 — I don't know how Dr. Watson works in this case. Does it show the HTTP headers so you can see IIS respond with the redirect? I use the Live HTTP Headers extension in Fx for quicky protocol debug.
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