Hello. I am doing SEO for a client's site, and the current URL is nameofwebsite.com/folder/home.html. I want to move the folders and files so the URL is just nameofwebsite.com. Can anyone please explain how to do this? I can figure out how to move the files and folders, but am not sure how to make it so when you type in the name of the site, it goes to nameofwebsite.com and not nameofwebsite.com/home.html. Please help if you know how to do this. I will give a list of 40 PR4-PR7 links to the person that can walk me through this. Not sure if it matters, but the site is being hosted on Go Daddy.
rename home.html to index.html or use an .htaccess file Do the search engines show sitename.com or sitename.com/home.html? Be very careful renaming pages. In the short term (3-4 month in my experience) it will negatively affect SEO & traffic & you will have to build new incoming links to compensate for the lost external links to existing URLs. .
Thanks for the help tobycoke. So all I have to do is move the files from the website folder to the root, and change the file name from home to index? This will automatically make the URL resolve to just nameofwebsite.com?
It already has a index.html file in the root, but does not use it. It instead uses a directory that holds all of the website files. I am wanting to take all of the website files and move them up to the root (which I am sure I can do), then do whatever is needed to make the URL resolve to nameofwebsite.com instead of nameofwebsite.com/directory/home.html, which is what comes up right now.
is the domain currently pointed to the root? if yes, (1) you may transfer the files to the root (but it may create broken links) (2) you can change the domain destination and point it to /directory.. Doing this, /directory is now the root of the domain... After doing this, you need to make sure that your "INDEX" or "HOME" page is recognized by your webhost.. you can ask them about the file hierarchy... index.html maybe read first than home.html.. make sure you only have one "index" file and there is no redirect.. please check any .htaccess file that will redirect.. all should be set after that ^_^
it appears u using some CMS in the domain just look thru the settings in that cms and u can make the desired changes