Our site does not use /index.html as default page but is it good idea to have index page and redirect it to our main site address which just ends in .com? Main reason for addressing this is to improve google SEO. For example, below shop.com index page does not exist and gives error, but newegg site redirects the index.html to main site entrance. http://www.shop.com/index.html http://www.newegg.com/index.html So I wanted to know the difference of having /index.html link redirect vs. not having index.html
To be honest, I don't think it matters a great deal, unless you have links coming in and pointing to index.html, in which case they're going to get a 404 and probably leave. I don't have an index.html on 90% of my sites, it's index.php, and when I need to point at that (ie the site root), I always link to www.sitename.com/ Just to iterate my point... http://www.amazon.com/index.html edit: but having a custom 404 error page is always a good idea!!