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Good question! But all links to .com or .com/ are treated the same. They all juice the root page of your domain. Dont worry, you wont loose any links. .com is similar to .com/ and vice versa.

I would say 301 redirect. e.g. in PHP you can use:

/home.html to /

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/home.html') {

header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');

header('Location: /');

}

non-www to www

**if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'example.com') **{

header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');

header('Location: www.example.com' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

}

Good luck!

Make sure every page you would like to be crawled is linked to in any matter. You can create natural links to them, e.g. from your navigation or in text links, or you can put them in a sitemap.

You can also link to these pages from websites like facebook, twitter to have fast crawling.

Tell Google in your robots.txt that it can access your website and make sure non of the pages you would like to be indexed carry the noindex-value in the robots meta-tag.

Good luck!

I would do something like this: http://jsfiddle.net/D7vMG/3/ (do you see the z-indexes? it makes sure the anchor is higher positioned then the paragraph.)

You can of course use only the <a>-tag and not a heading. In that case you can put the position: absolute on the a-tag.</a>

<a>Hope it helps! Good luck!</a>

Hi all, i notited this discussion in another question (http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-to-properly-link-to-products-from-category-page)

I answered there with a technical solution, which i also would like to share here.

http://jsfiddle.net/D7vMG/3/

I made a fiddle about it, what do you think? Is it over optimization, or is it just a nice trick to get only one link, which is really well optimized?

I believe the links are placed with a javascript on page ready, so in that case 'no'. You have to put anchor-tags on your website, but there is no href attribute set to them, so there isnt an actual link.

Hi Noamflint, we develop a lot of e-commerce websites and I want to fill you in how we tackled this problem several months ago and how.

We deleted the anchor of the image! In our code it looks something like:

The New iPad

As you see at the moment there is no anchor on the image, but our clients do want this. because of usabilty. and people just love clicking images.

We solved this with CSS:

div { position: relative; padding-top: 30px; display: block; }

div h3 { position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; display: block; }

div h3 a { width: 200px; height: 230px; display: block; }

div img { width: 200px; height: 200px; display: block; }

This code above is pseudo of course, but i hope you see what we are trying to accomplish. The anchor tag is positioned absolute in the parent div. With the dimensions on it, the link is above the image, so when people hover the image. they automatically hover the link. Clicking in it, takes them to the detail page.

You should try it! Maybe it will help you out.

No problem, glad I could help!

It is pretty much as if the anchor flows over the entire image.

I did this a while back on a dutch telecom website called typhone dot nl. Check it out, it's on the frontpage (the offer blocks all have it)

The H3 is just there as an example. If I just got an H1 above all products, i use h2's, if there is a h2, i use h3's. and so on.

Yeah of course, you can style the link any way you want. Even hide it although I wouldn't recommend that hehe.

I made this jsfiddle for you: http://jsfiddle.net/D7vMG/1/

good luck trying it yourself!