Major home page change!

[orangeoctop.us]

Hi Mozzers,

Making a major homepage change on my site Orangeoctop.us. I am going from featuring content to featuring products, similar to how moz and hubspot feature their content on the homepage.

Just to give you some numbers, the homepage only sees 2.6% of the total traffic and of that traffic half is direct. The homepage is going to be changed to OrangeOctop.us/guides.

My Question:

Is there anything that should be added to the homepage to ensure that I keep the same domain authority/page authority?

[FedeEinhorn]

Hi Joey,

I would definitely keep that as the homepage. It looks much more appealing and interesting than the guides page!

You should think on other ways to keep the visitors in your site, perhaps some little design changes that could help. I would start with the header, it is FAR too large. The main content is moved far away to the bottom. Although it is a responsive design, the header remains always too large.

I have a 1920x1080 and I can barely see the main content, but look what happens with a smaller screen, you can't see anything but the header.

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[orangeoctop.us]

Hi Federico,

Sorry. When you clicked the link, you were automatically sent to the variation of the split test. To see the original homepage go to to the orangeoctop.us now it should be updated!

[FedeEinhorn]

Hmmm I already see the guides page as the default page. I personally don't like the way it works... When I access a Website I like to see the domain homepage.

To answer your question, if you did a 301 redirect to the guides page then link juice flows to guides, however, some small percentage is diluted in the process.

I'd advice (if you wish to have the guides as the homepage) to remove the "/guides/" in the URL, basically making the guides page your homepage.

Hope that helps.