Force Google to ignore splash page & set www.address.com/home as the home page

Discussion in 'Google' started by telkins, Oct 22, 2013.

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    Hello. I have an odd question. My client made me create a splash page that serves as a portal to their 2 websites. When you visit the site, it gives you the choice to view site A or site B. My issue is now that this is live, Google sees this splash page as the home page and it has ruined my SEO.

    Is there a way to bypass and set as the home page for Google SEO purposes? I have recently set the robots.txt file to ignore the splash page, but I'm not sure this will do what I want it to.

    Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!
     
    telkins, Oct 22, 2013 IP
  2. cossio

    cossio Member

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    Why would anyone want a splash page? That is soooooo obsolete. Try to convince your client to remove it.
    If you can't, try to do something like: make site A your landing page and have a pop-up with chaice A or B.
     
    cossio, Oct 22, 2013 IP
  3. Unify

    Unify Member

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    Exactly what cossio said, splash page is just pointless. It's like have an 18+ warning for adult sites. No one does it anymore.

    If you really want the splash page, you could add something like this to your robots.txt file.

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /my-page.php
     
    Unify, Oct 22, 2013 IP
  4. wizardofx

    wizardofx Well-Known Member

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    make it a content page with multiple links to pages on site A or site B. You still are stuck with
    having to optimize for two different sites on one page, but it is better than a splash page.
     
    wizardofx, Oct 24, 2013 IP