If I'm setting up a site....say.... cnn.com. If I'm setting up the site...but all the pages and everything is in cnn.com/blog, will that have any effect on the SEO of the site? What about if I'm submitting the page to directories and indexes? If I have a redirect on for all of this...so cnn.com redirects automatically to cnn.com/blog. Do I type in cnn.com or cnn.com/blog? Does that have any effect on PR or how they are indexed? Thanks in advance
you need to read more stuff about seo before asking any seo questions. I just don't see any logic what you are trying to do. maybe I don't get it yet. so why not give your reason why you are trying to do that.
If it's a permanent redirect,the target webpage will obtained the Pagerank. Unless it's absolutely necessary, I wouldn't bother redirecting it to a domain.com/blog. Nowadays, most hosting providers will allow you to install a blog such as Wordpress directly on TLD. Plus, by keeping it simple, you'll have less frustration down the road. And if you're knew to SEO, you can make better use of your time by sticking to time proven techniques that works rather than try to reinvent the process. Good luck!
The short answer is yes. The first thing you're going to have to do is point the search engines and your users to the /blog/ section with a 301 redirect, and then work from there. But that does beg the question, why do you want to do this?
I got it all fixed now. My friend just did something weird with setting up the site where all the stuff was in a .com/blah format. All situated now though..and now I know for future reference