move the index.html for SEO

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move the index.html for SEO

for keyword positioning?

cuziamthecaptain

9:50 pm on Aug 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

Let's say I'm selling widgets, and my current website is
www.example.com. If I moved my index.html page to /widgets/ so that my homepage was www.example.com/widgets/index.html, wouldn't this help my search engine ranking?

If so, can I make it so that someone who types in www.example.com automatically goes to www.example.com/widgets/index.html. And if I'm in google as www.example.com how do I move that positioning to www.example.com/widgets/index.html?

Currently, I'm no where in google but my website has been around for years. If I make this change and have a few other sites link to it, how long will it take for the improvements to show? Thanks!

[edited by: pageoneresults at 10:27 pm (utc) on Aug. 15, 2005]
[edit reason] Examplified URI References [/edit]

RandomOne

1:28 am on Aug 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

I reckon changing from www.blah.com/index.htm to www.blah.com/widgets/index.htm could hurt you more another level down from root, then you would have to redirect the www.blah.com/index.htm page to the www.blah.com/widgets/index.htm which would cause you to have duplicate content (as you would have to leave the first page with keywords plus content to have any chance in the serps) duplicate content will get you thrown out of the serps.
Could go on but these reasons will do for now.

Here is a easy quick redirection code (place it underneath <Head> in your source code), you can test it out. Don't forget to type in the new domain where you see www.#*$!.com

encyclo

1:45 am on Aug 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

You should use a 301 permanent redirect (and not a meta refresh) if you were to do this - but it is very unlikely to help you much, and may do more harm than good.

Lorel

1:58 am on Aug 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

Any time you put a page into a sub directory the PR is usually 1 less than the home page and it goes down from there per directorty (unless you specifically gather lots of links for that page). And if you already had links coming into the main index page you'll have to change all those.

jdMorgan

2:07 am on Aug 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

If your site is "nowhere to be found in Google," then "tricks" like keyword-in-URL are not going to help much. However, reading this thread [webmasterworld.com] might be more useful.

IMO, it's not the subdirectory level (file path) that matters, it's the click-path (URL-to-URL) that matters once G has actually spidered the site. The directory level only seems to matter before G has actually crawled and evaluated the site's PR-passing paths.

Jim