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i am bit confused about TLD and index page. actually while optimizing the sites i cam across many sites having different PR for the same page i.e. http://www.example.com/ and http://www.example.com/index.html both having different PR.
so as a first i decided to point all the links pointing to the home page at http://www.example.com/. after this i did second thing which utterly confused me.actually i included Disallow: /index.html in the robots.txt file and set the index page at a very low pripority in the xml sitemap and high priority for TLD.have i done right thing?
the correct thing to do is redirect (using a 301 response) http://www.example.com/index.html to http://www.example.com/ and configure your server to use index.html as the default display page for a directory.
it is better to allow the request and then properly redirect it to the canonical url.
