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change the home page URL

by lakelover339
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HI -
I have a client whose site I am doing SEO for. The first page ( dot com) is a useless image page ('click to enter') I'd like to get rid of. BUT - he has a few links pointing to it. I'd rather not lose the few backlinks he has and more importantly, where he wants people to follow those links - like to apply for a job - I need them to work.
His 'true' home page is currently ( dot com/home . htm).
Can I just ask his webmaster to get rid of the first page and rename the home page to (.com) ? Or would we need to do some sort of redirect. We are going to have to do a redirect of the www URL as well.
It looks to be a Joomla site.

thanks - if you need any further clarification, just let me know
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  • Profile picture of the author esoomllub
    you can run pretty much any page as your home page. I assume by (.com), you mean the default page. That default page can be anything you want. By default, most linux/php servers will show either index.php, index.htm, index.html... but you can set your home page as necessary. I'd say find out the name of the default page that is being served, and just replace the content in that file with the content you want. The links coming in to the root, will still point to that page.
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    • Profile picture of the author Harrison Ortega
      Tell the webmaster to:
      - Remove the splash page.
      - Rename the home.html to index.html
      - Create a htaccess and 301 redirect the home.html and index.html to the main URL (www. site.com)
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      • Profile picture of the author lakelover339
        ah yes - perfect - thanks guys!
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        • Profile picture of the author jkmg
          You can also just simply add this line to your .htaccess file in any directory:

          DirectoryIndex somepage.html

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          • Profile picture of the author lakelover339
            Originally Posted by jkmg View Post

            You can also just simply add this line to your .htaccess file in any directory:

            DirectoryIndex somepage.html

            John
            Hmmm - 'somepage' being the page you want to be your new home page?
            then will 'THEDOMAIN dot COM' direct to that page?
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            • Profile picture of the author Guide
              Originally Posted by lakelover339 View Post

              Hmmm - 'somepage' being the page you want to be your new home page?
              Correct. Make sure to remove the index.htm/index/html entries (if they are there) before adding your page.
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