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    • AnthonMedia
      AnthonMedia last edited by

      Hello,

      Is it a good idea to forward the root of my website (https://exmaple.nl) to example.nl/keyword (And will it be helpful)?
      I;m trying to get a higher ranking on a specifiek keyword.

      And are the possibilities in the future to reuse the homepage without losing ranking for example.nl/keyword (if my idea works)?

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      • DmitriiK
        DmitriiK last edited by

        Hi. Bad idea. It won't help with rankings. Only will bring confusion to users and, since it's kinda spammy and manipulative, wrath from engine crawlers.

        Why do you want to redirect specifically? Why not just create a page domain.com/keyword, put related content, make it awesome, build backlinks to that page, if possible with exact or partial anchor text?

        If you check Search Results, it's far-far-far not always that index page is ranking for every keyword.

        Hope this helps.

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