Hi. recently i took up this freelancing job of maintaining a completed and running website. the previous webmaster didn't want to maintain it anymore. it is a niche website concentrating on some medical studies issues. i have reached an agreement with the owner to allow me to place adsense in addition to my maintenance fee.

anyway, the page now has a start page located in a folder. meaning if you typed in the domain name, www.domain.com, the first page will redirect to www.domain.com/main/about.html. that is the first page.

will this in any way confuse the search engine that crawls the website? should i move the first page to the root of the domain?

hope i can get some tips on this. thanks.

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SabahRhinos | mrBadak

you can use a permanent redirect to tell the spiders that the root page is moved.

If it's not too much trouble, I don't see why you shouldn't move the page to the root directory. If you're using relative links, you just need to move and rename the file as "index".

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SEO Consultant

The SEO'd method of redirecting would be to use the 301 HTTP response header. How to do this depends on what httpd software you use.