landing page redirect - bad idea?

[thompom]

hi,

my landing page is default.asp that redirects to my home page home.asp - using the asp response.redirect is this a bad idea?
would this affect my google pagerank?
would it be better to not have this redirect?

thanks

MG

 

[feherke]

Hi

Would be better to not have a landing page.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[BigRed1212]

Why do you have a landing page an what purpose does it serve? Just asking- did you do it for a reason because you wanted to try to do something specific or did you just do it because you just did it that way?

The reason I am asking is that if you wanted to do it for a particular reason maybe folks here could help address that and help you avoid the desire/need for a landing page. I find landing pages annoying and I think others do as well.

 

[thompom]

Hi,

maybe 'landing page' is the wrong term - i think landing page means an intro page that says 'welcome' and 'click here to enter site'

mine just redirects to another page,cant remember why I did it this way - will probably find out when it all falls over!!
anyways will remove it and rename home.asp to default.asp - job done

if you want to see what I mean goto

http://www.sewardcars.com

thanks for your comments

MG

 

[feherke]

Hi

Got is. So default.asp has no content. Then there is no annoyance for humans and while you use standard HTTP redirecting mechanism, no harm for robots.

Personally I would configure the web server to
[ul]
[li]serve home.asp as directory index page[/li]
[li]redirect requests for default.asp with 301 Moved Permanently instead of 302 Found[/li]
[/ul]

For more on SEO better ask in forum828.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/