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Home page URL advice
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- paul orford
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Hi
I have a website at http://www.ukfisherman.com which I am redesigning at http://www.ukfisherman.com/fishing
I am not sure whether to move the entire structure up one so that the home page remains www.ukfisherman.com or to keep all the urls with the fishing directory in them and redirect the home page to www.ukfisherman.com (hope that makes sense).
Does anyone have any advice as to which strategy would be the best or does it make little difference? My thoughts are that it might be good to have the word fishing in the URLs for SEO purposes.
Cheers
Paul - www.west5web.com
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- Peter Osipof
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- I don’t know if there will be any SEO benefit, for me it’s personal choice I have Joomla sites that are in domain root and sites that are in sub-folder with home, web, site as names for sub-folders.
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- paul orford
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Thanks for your advice guys.
There's no downside to having the site in a sub-folder though is there???
The site at www.ukfisherman.com has got reasonable page rank (4) as its been going for a couple of years etc. If I now set the home page effectively as www.ukfisherman.com/fishing and set a redirect from the old home page domain, does this mean that google et al will have to re-index the home page and my page rank will be lost?? Not sure that makes sense but hope you understand what I'm trying to say.
Cheers
Paul - www.west5web.com
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- Peter Osipof
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- I would use www.ukfisherman.com because all users know the link and you have a good page rank
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