change the home page URL

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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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  • 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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    • 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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    change the home page URL

    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).