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A bit confused. anyone can help?

by Edge88
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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
#bit #confused #confused publishing seo
  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author Edge88
      Originally Posted by netfq View Post

      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?
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    • Profile picture of the author Edge88
      Originally Posted by netfq View Post

      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?
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      • Profile picture of the author 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
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        If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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        • Profile picture of the author Edge88
          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          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...
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