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Replacing Homepage with Existing Page - Making it Static - Does Pass Juice

by nik0 Banned
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I have an existing page on my website, that received quite a few links.

Now I'm considering to use that page as a static homepage, by using Reading Settings in WP.

Will this pass pagerank / link juice when I don't setup an additional 301 redirect or would it just be treated as a link?

EDIT: You know what I'll just try it, the sites aren't making a fortune yet, and I can always setup a 301 redirect at a later point if I lose all rankings. Will update later with results.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hemanth Malli
    Hi,
    No you will not pass the page rank to get the links you have to do the SEO to your website to get the links.
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    • Profile picture of the author PotPieGirl
      Well, let's think this thru...(and btw, good question.... I like thought provoking questions - they are rare around here lately)

      If you make that individual page your static home page via the reading settings, then WP makes the 301 for you, right? Then, theoretically, the link juice should follow...don't you think? You shouldn't have to do anything extra, right?
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by PotPieGirl View Post

        Well, let's think this thru...(and btw, good question.... I like thought provoking questions - they are rare around here lately)

        If you make that individual page your static home page via the reading settings, then WP makes the 301 for you, right? Then, theoretically, the link juice should follow...don't you think? You shouldn't have to do anything extra, right?
        Silly I didn't think of that before, checking header status and it's indeed a 301

        http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/

        Problem solved!
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        • Profile picture of the author PotPieGirl
          Cool beans!

          Ya see - good productive conversations CAN still happen around here =)

          And actually, you got my brain churning with your original question. Thanks for that!
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          • Profile picture of the author nik0
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            Originally Posted by PotPieGirl View Post

            Cool beans!

            Ya see - good productive conversations CAN still happen around here =)

            And actually, you got my brain churning with your original question. Thanks for that!
            Your mine too, somehow I assumed there were also redirects possible without 301, 302, 307 or using meta refresh.

            You know when you set redirects in .htaccess, I don't think it's necessary to add a number code there like [R=301] so wonder what it uses when you don't indicate that.
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            • Profile picture of the author PotPieGirl
              It's a normal 301 canonical, right? The same as www vs non-www...you're just picking a root home page where all root juice flows, don't you think?
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              • Profile picture of the author nik0
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                Originally Posted by PotPieGirl View Post

                It's a normal 301 canonical, right? The same as www vs non-www...you're just picking a root home page where all root juice flows, don't you think?
                If it isn't canonical then the Yoast plugin makes it that way.

                Normal 301 permanent redirect yes.

                My site used to have a "best list" optimized for "best product" keyword but instead I decided to merge it to my homepage as it made no sense to have a "best page" "review page" and "category page" that all have the same goal. It's also done from a monetization point of view after studying some sites of an ex BH guy.

                I think that affiliate links per page don't really matter but that Google counts it as per site and divides affiliate links by number of pages. So having a category / best page / and homepage full of affiliate links can't be very beneficial. Better concentrate it all on 1 insane well converting page then spread it out and getting a disadvantage from Google.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by Hemanth Malli View Post

      Hi,
      No you will not pass the page rank to get the links you have to do the SEO to your website to get the links.
      Uhhh, right
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