Moving Home page to the Root or Redirect?

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   Hi folks !!!

What do you recommend? Moving the Home page to the root or a 301 redirect to the PC folder?  Which of these two methods are more SEO effective?

Thanks.

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icamer Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 17-August-2006 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote icamer Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Moving Home page to the Root or Redirect? Posted: 27-November-2009 at 7:16pm
	Hi folks !!! What do you recommend? Moving the Home page to the root or a 301 redirect to the PC folder? Which of these two methods are more SEO effective? Thanks.

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27-November-2009 at 7:19pm
	Moving the home page to the root is simple. Why even hesitate or challenge the options? You can have it done in less than an hour.

avmndcom Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 07-December-2009 Location: Mandan Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote avmndcom Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30-December-2009 at 8:24pm
	Ok, but lets say one goes for the redirect as described here: http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/how_to/move_home_page_retain_ajax Would one do their SEO in the default.asp page or the home.asp page or both? This seems like a bit of an odd design that product cart chose to not make the home page at the root level. I suspect it is so that folks with existing sites can easily incorporate product cart. It seems there should be an admin function to handle this.

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30-December-2009 at 9:04pm
	What I do when we build a site is to follow that "move" procedure, then rename home.asp to default.asp. It takes about an hour. Then you can basically ignore the home.asp in the PC folder. Yep, would be nice at some point to see v4 offer built-in support for a root home page. At least the SEO mod is built in and switch-selectable. All good things in time...

ProductCart Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group ProductCart Team Joined: 01-October-2003 Status: Offline Points: 135	Post Options Post Reply Quote ProductCart Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30-December-2009 at 9:17pm
	There are "ready to go" files for this now. It only takes a couple of minutes. Please see: http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/how_to/move_home_page_retain_ajax#first_optionpre-edited_files
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Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30-December-2009 at 9:26pm
	That rocks. What a relief that will be to not have to keep patching the files.