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root directory as placeholder page

what is the best way to handle it?

         

Finder

5:37 pm on Sep 16, 2002 (gmt 0)

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We bought two domains, one for a business we are developing and one for our hobby stuff. The hobby domain has two separate sites on it, as in:

www.mydomain.com/one/
www.mydomain.com/two/

They are separate, unrelated sites and have been submitted to directories and search engines as such. My questions is, what is the best way to handle the / directory, i.e., www.mydomain.com? Use a redirect to one of the other sites? Not have anything there at all?

Right now it contains nothing but a silly banner we made and two links -- one to each main site. This URL has not been submitted anywhere. The only people who ever see it are site visitors who manually enter the address out of curiosity. There is also one dim bulb out there who intended to link to my site but omitted the directory in the URL. I get almost no traffic from that link though.

JamesR

5:52 pm on Sep 16, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I would probably redirect it to the business site, maybe even via htaccess and make it a permanent redirect. I would say the business site takes precedence over the hobby end of things.

Finder

6:33 pm on Sep 16, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I would probably redirect it to the business site, maybe even via htaccess and make it a permanent redirect. I would say the business site takes precedence over the hobby end of things.

The business domain isn't even online yet, although we do get mail there. We aren't putting it up until the product is closer to completion. The way it stands now is:

www.hobbydomain.com/hobbyone/
www.hobbydomain.com/hobbytwo/
www.businessdomain.com (not online yet)

My query was about what to do with the root dir of www.hobbydomain.com since it really serves no purpose. :)

Purple Martin

1:16 am on Sep 17, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Why not give it a purpose? Put some useful content there, relevant to both hobbies. Link it to them both, optimise it, and submit it. That way you can pull in more SE traffic. Just make sure the content is useful!

Filipe

9:25 pm on Sep 17, 2002 (gmt 0)

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What I would do is put a placeholder image and text (usually an email address) just so people know the server is in use. That's what I do with all my personal servers.