URL structuring / redirect question
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Hi there, I have a URL structuring / redirect question. I have many pages on my site but I set each page up to fall under one of two folders as I serve two unique markets and want each side to be indexed properly.
I have SIDE A: www.domain/FOLDER-A.com and SIDE B: www.domain/FOLDER-B. The problem is that I have a page for www.domain.com and www.domain/FOLDER-A/page1.com but I do NOT have a page for www.domain/FOLDER-A. The reason for this is that I've opted to make what would be www.domain/FOLDER-A be www.domain.com and act the primary landing page the site. As a result, there is no page located at www.domain/FOLDER-A. My WordPress template (Divi by Elegant Themes) forced me to create a blank page to be able to build off the FOLDER-A framework.
My question is that given I am forced to have this blank page, do I leave it be or create a 302 or 307 redirect to www.domain.com? I fear using a 301 redirect given I may want to utilize this page for content at some point in the future.
This isn't the easiest post to follow so please let me know if I need to restate the question. Many thanks in advance!
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Chris - thanks for the response, the kind words, and for pointing out the footer link issues. We're still cleaning a few things up.
Do you know if there are any concerns associated with using a 302 long term, say 3+ years? I'm contemplating using a 302 or just adding a generic paragraph about our fundraising platform to the empty page and leaving it out of our menu drop downs. This way I won't get dinged by Google crawlers for a blank page. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,
Kurt
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Thank you for clarifying. Nice looking website. This is a pretty common issue. If you plan on creating content in the near future on that page you can do a 302 temporary redirect to your page "How Fundraising Works" this would be the most relevant page, not your homepage.
It's never good to leave a blank page on it's own.
Also, I'm noticing a few other minor issues such as double backslash in your footer links and "Hello World" blog post is published. This can be a target for spammers and hackers.
Hope this helps answer your question.
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Hi Chris,
Of course. The website is https://www.centiment.co/ and the blank page is https://www.centiment.co/fundraise/. You will see that all of the pages under the drop down menu "Fundraise" fall under the fundraise/ folder.
Thank you!
Kurt
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Can you please provide the actual URLs or replace the domain with X's but keep the structure.
The structure of the URLs in your examples are not valid addresses so it's confusing. Thanks.
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