EQUTE — There are thousands of good URL tips for search engine optimization out there, but one simple fix is crucial for helping boos the homepage traffic.

One of the most basic things you can do is get your homepage consolidated. If you’re trying to get the best out of SEO, it an obvious foul to split up the page you are trying to link to.

A list of three common URL problems featured on SEO.com gives site owners a great set of tips to get things streamlined for search spiders and users.

Many sites send links to their homepage, but which one? Links don’t always come to the page you want.

SEO.com gave several examples:

http://www.mysite.com

http://mysite.com

http://www.mysite.com/index.html

http://mysite.com/index.html

This is a pretty easy fix, one that makes use of the almighty canonical tag.

Simply direct all those errant homepages to your www.mysite.com instead of cutting your resources into fractions. Even if you want to split your homepage up for separate versions or tracking purposes, you should send all other sites to whichever version you want showing up in the search engines.