Site assets index page showing on search engines by default

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For a large majority of our site assets, their homepages, which usually sit at /home, seem to take precedence over the root url of the site asset on Search Engines - eg. Google

For example https://www.ulster.ac.uk/home is shown by google, and https://www.ulster.ac.uk is not shown.

Does anyone else have this issue and what is the best solution?

We tried to use canonical urls but Search Engines are not honouring them.

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Are there any links to /home? First look at removing them and make them just go to the root domain. Your google analytics should be able to tell you that.

Other alternative is to redirect from /home to the root domain with a 301 redirect.