A bit confused. anyone can help?

[Edge88]

So I have a domain. www.domain.com
I published my website to it
then I decided to try and get my website to be in a longer url for SEO. so I published it again to www.domain.com/keyword1 and set www.domain.com to redirect to the longer url (the one i want ranked).

Now google has been indexing my page, but the google result shows www.domain.com and shows 0 links to the page, but shows some links to the domain as a whole.

How do I fix this? will google fix itself by indexing the other url as it keeps finding more links to it?

What should I do to fix this mess? I'm using a site builder and I wanted to make www.domain/keyword1 the home page.and also the page that is indexing on google.

I already made a LOT of links to www.domain.com/keyword1 so I cant just change my mind now, gotta make it work

[Geraldm]

Hi Edge88,

You can edit your .htaccess file in your /public_html folder....

Add the following line:

RedirectPermanent / http://www.domain.com/keyword1/

This will also tell Google that it is a permanent 301 redirect....

But if you really want to get SEO right, I would suggest going and buying the domain www.keyword1.com

[Edge88]

Originally Posted by netfq

Hi Edge88,

You can edit your .htaccess file in your /public_html folder....

Add the following line:

RedirectPermanent / http://www.domain.com/keyword1/

This will also tell Google that it is a permanent 301 redirect....

But if you really want to get SEO right, I would suggest going and buying the domain www.keyword1.com

hmm, I'm using my host's interface (webhostingpad) and I used their redirect wizard I guess. and it says there that it is a permanent redirect from directory "/" to "/keyword1" and it says it's permanent. and when i type www.domain.com into the browser it does redirect to www.domain.com/keyword1 ...

where in the file should that line be added in case it isn't already there?

[Edge88]

Originally Posted by netfq

Hi Edge88,

You can edit your .htaccess file in your /public_html folder....

Add the following line:

RedirectPermanent / http://www.domain.com/keyword1/

This will also tell Google that it is a permanent 301 redirect....

But if you really want to get SEO right, I would suggest going and buying the domain www.keyword1.com

Ok, so I entered that line to the file you told me and when i checked it is redirecting to http://www.domain.com/keyword1/keywo...word1/keyword1...........

any other code I should try?

[paulgl]

You are confusing domains with SEO.
Websites are ranked, not urls.
You can get ranked with or without keywords in urls.
Has no bearing whatsoever.
I think too many people believe this myth and think as if by
magic adding a keyword in a url is a panacea. It's not.
The SEO comes from what is done to and with the website.
Shoot, you can take a website like trulia.com and be top ranked
in real estate.

Paul

[Edge88]

Originally Posted by paulgl

You are confusing domains with SEO.
Websites are ranked, not urls.
You can get ranked with or without keywords in urls.
Has no bearing whatsoever.
I think too many people believe this myth and think as if by
magic adding a keyword in a url is a panacea. It's not.
The SEO comes from what is done to and with the website.
Shoot, you can take a website like trulia.com and be top ranked
in real estate.

Paul

Paul,

read my post and you will notice that I never said I was changing the url to optmize it for the keyword, I am changing the url to make it longer so I can backlink to a longer url and make it look more natural to google.

And I know having the keyword in the url doesnt help. I rank above an amazon page and we both have the keyword in the domain, but I have the content that is SEOed for the keyword and amazon doesnt...