submitting a site with nothing on the root dir

[alce]

I need a subdirectory of my site to be indexed by google. The thing is that there is nothing in my domain root at the moment. If someone goes to www.example.com they get redirected to
www.example.com/subdir.

Is the subdir still going to get indexed?

Thanks

[Quadrille]

There is no point submitting any page to a search engine; the only effective way to get a listing that sticks is to have at least one link to the page, from a page already listed in google.

If there is a legitimate redirect at www.example.com, then google will happily follow it - but you will need a page at www.example.com/subdir for that to be listed.

not a problem at all - but be aware you are wasting the single most important URL your site can ever possess: www.example.com.

[opifex]

have to agree with Quadrille on one point anyway ... get some site structure ... normally nothing will open if the index.html isn't there.

submit your pages .... the majority of my new clients have no incoming links to their new sites .... hmmm, they´re new! submit and if the pages are properly constructed they will show up in short order.
maybe i'm just exceptionally lucky.....

[Quadrille]

They will show up if you submit, but they may not stay for long - and they will never do well in other people's searches without links.

Getting links and building your site is a much better way to spend your time than submitting; the SEs will do it for you if you have links - and usually just as quickly as you can!

[topr8]

i personally would not do the redirect from the root.

just submit the subdirectory, it will (possibly) be indexed, the fact that there is nothing in the root is of no importance.

... infact if later you start to use the root, then it may be complicated by the fact that you were at one time redirecting from the root to the subdirectory.

[topr8]

ps. if you have control over your site's root, why don't you just put up a holding page? i do this all the time, i just put one line of text (the domain name) on the page, ditto the meta title and leave it as that

[vincevincevince]

Quadrille, you are spot on, but I was disappointed that you didn't enhance either contributions by quoting one of Quadrille's oft-quoted laws!

[Quadrille]

VVV

The lawyers are working on it as we speak ... ;)