Is it OK to 301 redirect the index page to a search engine friendly url
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Is it OK to 301 redirect the index page to a search engine friendly url.
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Hey, yep, simple for sure, but in this instance, just not the right thing to do.
In an ideal world, if you wrote a piece on big yellow underpants then the page name would include those keywords so...
http://www.yoururl.com/big-yellow-underpants.html
But, for the homepage, this is a special case, you have no page name as such, just the URL itself so in the 99.9% of cases where you don't have the keywords in the URL rewriting the / to a keyword driven page (or vice versa) is just not going to do anything.
This is a tiny thing, don't sweat it!
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Hi Marcus,
It occurred to me, when tweaking my page score, that the only item I could not address was the keyword in domain. The keyword in question we currently rank 3rd.. So I am pondering on the little things and interested in the views of others.
As Kyle states using a 301 it is simple to do and internal nav is not an issue.
Thank you
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Hi,
If you mean 301 http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html to http://www.yourdomain.com/ then that would be ok, otherwise your index page would already be the most user friendly URL.
Kyle
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Hey Butler
Why would you want to do that? Surely, you don't want a redirect on your index page? what could be better than http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/ ?
You are really not going to get a search hike from redirecting to
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/keyword-goes-here.htmlThere is nothing really that wrong with this, but certainly, if you are doing it purely for a ranking boost, I would not bother and how would this work for internal navigation? Would the homepage links point to this page?
Maybe I am missing something here but as a general overview I see little point in doing this.
Hope this helps!
Marcus
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