Thomas is making the right point that you do always want your domain to point to your homepage.  How you "name" it depends on the platform you are using. Mine was a Wordpress question. But a traditional website used to call the homepage index.html and the browser or server knows to resolve to that for the homepage.

That's oversimplified, but the point is that it depends on the platform, but regardless of how you get there, you want your domain to go to your homepage.

Tom,

I appreciate your reply and attempt to help. But I'm not sure you understand what I am asking.  I understand the concept of the root domain and redirect, etc well.

The primary domain, will definitely resolve to the homepage.  My question is fairly Wordpress specific. When you create a new page or post you give it a title.  Calling it "home" makes it easy to find on the admin side  in the list of pages.

Whatever page I set as the "homepage" in the Wordpress admin settings, then the domain will resolve to that page no matter what I call it. And no one has to add the title as part of the URL or anything after the / to get there.

I could leave off the title of the page completely. It's not ideal for when I hand it off to clients. (People like things to be clearly labeled what they are.)  But is that what you are suggesting I always do?

I work almost exclusively in wordpress now. And I always hesitate when it comes to naming a site's homepage. I have to give it a name -  right? I usually pick the business name or /home. And then that is identifies as the site's static homepage in the Wordpress settings and it works just fine.

But I've started to get warning that it is an issue because it creates redirects.  For example, I just ran the Ryte service analysis on a website and it warned me about "Non-indexable pages with high relevance" and it's basically my homepage that has 29 incoming links that "passes all pagerank to https://ourdomain/home

But what am I supposed to call my homepage if not "Home"? It's not like the old days where anyone has to type it in. The root domain loads the homepage just as it should.

Can anybody advise me regarding best practices for what to name a Wordpress homepage for good SEO?

With thanks in advance for your help.

Sounds like it is what Moz does, not what Localeze and Acxiom do. It seems like the only way they would know to change it back is because Moz tells them to revert.