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no. just seems like keyword level penguin "penalty" on home page. i came up with something a little different we're going to try. we created a page /home and put the rel canonical there, and we're using a 302 to redirect /home to /. i'm hoping google will index the homepage as  /home while it "temporarily" goes to get the content from /.

that would be cool...ive done two rounds of deep disavow and it hasn't lifted a thing. whoever was doing this before really screwed up. big time penguin but only home page.

this thread is helpful. i guess my biggest concern is doing something wrong and having the whole site drop out of index due to something i'm overlooking

I want to orphan a home page on a site that I own so that the start page becomes site.com/home (or whatever) as opposed to site.com/. I need to accomplish this without associating the former with the latter...meaning no 301. Since this will not be a temporary move, 302 does not seem to work either. And even if I could use it, I don't want to credit / with anything from /home. Is there any way to default the Apache handler to /home without rewriting the URL? Or is there any other solution? The bottom line is, at the end of the day, I need Google to forget about / and anything associated with it, without interrupting the user experience when they request /. Thanks in advance.

Is there a way to redirect one page to another, e.g. test.com/ to test.com/home, without passing link juice or any other associated properties of the latter to the former?