Should I redirect from / to /blog/? Will it hurt SEO?

I have just started a blog on my domain. Should I redirect root to blog dir

[adnovice]

Hi

I am new to this. I have registered my own domain and started a blog 10 days back. The domain and the blog are new.

I am using WordPress for my blog and it is http://www.example.com/blog/

I was surprised to see that Google already has indexed my home page and for search term "example" I am the 5th result. The only thing I did was to use Google Analytics. I know for sure, soon I will loose my rank as there are lots of old sites with a lot of content for that exact term.

While it lasts I want to use it. Already Google sent 2 visitors. The problem is that my home page just has "Welcome!" and nothing else. So, the users got bounced. Should I redirect '/' to '/blog/' using Apache rewrite? Will it hurt my SEO chances.

OR should I create a simple html page and asking users to go to the blog?
I searched but couldn't find anything specific to this type of redirect. There was one topic on this but nobody answered.

[g1smd]

The root index page is the most important on your site. It is bad form to make it redirect to an internal page.

You could use a rewrite to make it appear that the blog is actually in the root. That is quite easy to do.

Be aware of the differences between a redirect and a rewrite.

[adnovice]

Thank you g1smd.

You are right about the home page being very important part of a site.

The only issue is that I am planning to add a few articles and other stuff to the site in future. Then, I will have to change the whole thing again.

I am totally lost now.

I guess, I should create a link from the home page to the blog, rather than redirect.

[g1smd]

Uzse a link or a rewrite. Don't use a redirect.

Plan ahead of the future. Don't change URLs later.

[adnovice]

Yes. I have created a simple html page introducing as to what I am going to do and gave a link to the blog. Anyway, in future also, there will be a menu from which there will be a link to blog. For SE's it should all seem to be very similar.

Thank you for the advice g1smd.