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    • McTaggart
      McTaggart last edited by

      Just working with a company that has chosen a home URL with /home latched on - very strange indeed - has anybody else comes across this kind of homepage URL "decision" in the past? I can't see why on earth anybody would do this! Perhaps simply a logic-defying decision?

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      • Andy.Drinkwater
        Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

        As mentioned above, some CMS's will do this and if the site isn't configured correctly, like editing the .htaccess to take care of it. then it will just sit there. It is unlikely to be causing problems, unless there are multiple homepages being generated (/home, /index.html, etc).

        Ideally it should be redirected to root if for no other reason, than to bring it up to date.

        -Andy

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        • donford
          donford last edited by

          This is a VERY old way of indicating a link to the "homepage" which is usually index.html /.php /.asp .

          The term "Home" was very prevalent in the late 90's early 2000's. This gave rise to companies with home in their name like homestead.com (webhost / design). Many companies and people still see the word home and relate it to root. However the top 10 websites in the world do not use the term except Yahoo.com. Though you may find many "house" icons still about.

          The newer generation just generally knows that clicking the logo will take you back to the root, Back in the early days of the web people needed to understand what each link meant, there weren't many standards but "home" caught on quickly and is still used a lot today. In addition to this many host still use the term "home" to indicate the users public_html folder where their pages are served from. It maybe that somebody who worked at the company found "/home" very comfortable looking due to these reasons.

          I agree though having it in the url is pretty silly nowadays. I would suggest they just 301 it back too root -> site.com

          Hope this helps,

          Don

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          • Hutch42
            Hutch42 last edited by

            Some CMS would do that automatically, if the company you are working with had one of those (or the decision maker is used to seeing that) they may just think that it is normal and a best practice. At the end of the day, while odd now, it should not matter from an SEO perspective (just make sure that you redirect the base url to that page).

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            • Mustansar
              Mustansar last edited by

              Hey

              i think its hard to say without having look at the URL. do you mind to post kinda of example or of url.

              thank you

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