Two Home Pages

Yup, in todays hosting age there is absolutely zero reason to generate both an index and a home.html There are numerous accepted filenames for the start page

index.htm(l)
home.htm(l)
index.php

But proper design is that only 1 of them is generated. Not multiple. Generating both a home.html AND index.html is redundant and complicates things. This needs to be fixed.

Duplicate content is content that appears more than once with a unique website address (URL) - so, if the same content exists at more than one web address, you’ve got duplicate content.

It is not a penalty; however, it can still sometimes influence search engine rankings. Google calls it, "appreciably similar" and it can be difficult to choose which version is more relevant to a given search query.

When "appreciably similar" content is present, site owners can suffer rankings and traffic losses.

Search engines will seldom show on purpose several editions of the same subject matter, and thus are made to choose which edition is most likely to be the best result. This weakens the visibility of each of the duplicates.

Link equity can be further reduced because other sites must choose between the duplicates as well.

You will not get a straight answer from nicepage.com.
I got one from:

frankieboy posted this 20 April 2020
He said:

Name the homepage (first site) "index" and give it a "label" (HOME or START). Then you only have the index.html when exporting as HTML.

charles posted this 20 April 2020
Thanks that worked!

The reason this is necessary is if you type in an URL such as https://www.charlesholcomb.com, you have not presented any page the server should deliver to the client (computer or mobile phone). In many cases, what you will see then is the default page, or index.html page.

If you know the exact address of the page you want to view, such as https://www.charlesholcomb.com/About-Us.html, then the server will direct you to that page instead of the index.html page.

index.html is easily recognized on most servers as the default page, which is why many web developers choose to go with index.html as the default page name.

Hi Sam,

Home.html and the same as other pages like about.html and contact.html created in the Nicepage editor. Any of those pages can be a main page. That's why index.html is generated.

Look at the example below. You can set your contact page as your Homepage. Index.html will be generated and the Contact page will be opened as your main on your website.

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Ahmad.
I know this has been brought up multiple times.
Can you give us specific instances where a home.html is required since that was previously mentioned?
AFAIK, and I'm no expert, only an index.html file is required for the browser to load the site, and having a duplicate/home.html can cause issues in certain circumstances.
Thanks.

Hello Genda,

As we explained earlier, the index.html file is generated automatically after the export The index file has the same content as the home page. Nicepage generates the index file because some hosting providers require it. Unfortunately, it is not possible to disable the generating of the index file. We also removed the possibility of naming pages as index.
Without the Home page index file going wrong and vice versa, without the index.html website, won't be working.

Let us know if you have any questions or require our assistance.

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And in 2023 again this problem,. Why dont you make something to solve this problem? It seems, you are some amateur guys in software-building, if you can not solve this problem. Why should I pay 100 USD yearly for this pieca of shit? And I tried to delete the home file. You know what happened after this? The index.html gone wrong...

Last edited 23 February 2023 by gendacsongi

Hello,

Some of the servers require an index.html file. For this reason, we added it. To avoid indexing two home pages you can use canonical links.
But we added your request to our wish list.

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I will make this as simple as possible. Remove Home.html not index.html from the generated Nicepage program. Thanks for listening.

Hello,

Some of the servers require an index.html file. For this reason, we added it. To avoid indexing two home pages you can use canonical links.
But we added your request to our wish list.

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We understand that “Nicepage automatically generates an index.html file as a copy of the page specified as the home page under the Site Settings. Therefore, you cannot create a page with the same name. This will cause a conflict.” That is exactly the problem with the program Nicepage. It is a design flaw. The program Nicepage has a design flaw. No web page needs a copy of the home page. Do you understand that an html source code web page does not need for any reason a copy of the home page to be uploaded to the World Wide Web? Check out https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_basic.asp

Hi,

Nicepage automatically generates an index.html file as a copy of the page specified as the home page under the Site Settings. Therefore, you cannot create a page with the same name. This will cause a conflict.
Please let us know if you have any further questions.

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Name the homepage (first site) "index" and give it a "label" (HOME or START). Then you only have the index.html when exporting as HTML.

Hi,
I'm struggling with this, too. If I try to rename the homepage to index, the App won't let me. It says "Reserved page name is used"
??

THX!

Thanks that worked!

Name the homepage (first site) "index" and give it a "label" (HOME or START). Then you only have the index.html when exporting as HTML.

Thank you for responding however, you did not answer my question. Again, the question was why does Nicepage automatically make two homepages for my html websites? I know I can delete the extra unnecessary page. I then have to adjust my links using an html editor because the home tab is set to go to the extra home page. Search engines can get confused while scanning two duplicate homepages. Please tell me why Nicepage automatically makes two homepages for my html websites or correct this with an update.

Hi,

Nicepage generates an index page because it is required by some hosting services. You can remove the duplicated page manually if needed
Please let us know if you have any further questions.

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