Home page URL

[CWseo]

Hi,

I work on this site: http://www.towerhousetraining.co.uk/about-us. This is the home page URL. Should this be 301'd to: http://www.towerhousetraining.co.uk?

I have created a site map, which I submitted to Google Webmaster Tools, which includes these URL's: /about-us, /training-we-offer & /contact-us. There are a total of 3 pages on the website. Webmaster tools has only indexed 2 out of 3 pages. I think this is something to do with the /about-us URL, as when I do a site: search, these pages appear:

www.towerhousetraining.co.uk/, /training-we-offer & /contact-us.

I am not sure why Google has indexed the home page as www.towerhousetraining.co.uk/ and not /about-us? Is it a bad idea in general not to have your homepage as your root domain?

I added a  to the homepage, but am wondering if this was the right thing to do?

Any help would be appreciated.

[AJPro]

Hello,

I don't understand why you redirected your index page to the "about us" page, Don't you want your home page to start at www.towerhousetraining.co.uk? Like having a short intro there and where people can read more by then clicking "about us".

Canonical urls are used on pages with very similar content. You basically tell the search engines what page you wishes to rank (of the similar ones).