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Good question! But all links to .com or .com/ are treated the same. They all juice the root page of your domain. Dont worry, you wont loose any links. .com is similar to .com/ and vice versa.

I would say 301 redirect. e.g. in PHP you can use:

/home.html to /

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/home.html') {

header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');

header('Location: /');

}

non-www to www

**if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'example.com') **{

header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');

header('Location: www.example.com' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

}

Good luck!

Maybe an opinion from a website owner who gets requests for links a lot is interesting?

Daily I get around 30 e-mails a day with people who request a link from my website to theirs. I usually respond to just 2 or 3 of them. I make my selections very fast, here's what I look for:

1. Do the people know my real name?
   I often get e-mails that start with 'hello webmaster' and 'hi there', unless they have a really cool e-mailaddress, i delete them instantly, 'cause my real name is all over the website (all blogposts e.g.)
2. Is the subject appealing enough?
   You don't want to know how many e-mails I get with subjectslines like 'something really interesting for your visitors', and so on. These subjects look very very spammy to me. My mailbox is hugh, so they go down the drain almost all the time. In Holland we say 'call the animal like it's called'. People who ask me for links, sure are into SEO and know I am (they can see my backlink profile and even some of my blogposts for that).. why not just tell me what you would like to accomplish?
3. "If you link me, I will link you!"
   So my content is not at all interesting to you? Why would my visitors be interested in yours then? Please, If you want a linkexchange, put my link on your website first. And tell me about it, you don't even have to ask for a backlink, i will give it to you directly, even in content!
4. Correct grammar
   I know, my english is not that good, but I get a lot of requests from Dutch webmasters and they don't even know how to correctly write Dutch. Stupid spellingerrors often make me laugh and sometimes, when I'm in the mood, I respond on that, not on the link request.
5. No = No
   I often see automated e-mails, although personal and well written, when I tell you no, please don't e-mail me next month asking the same thing.
6. Don't make me look dumb
   "Did you know a link makes websites rank higher?" or any lines like that makes me laugh I know you try hard to convince me, but don't you think i know? You've read my blog, didn't you?

Don't you guys ever get weird link requests? What's the most annoying one?

Make sure every page you would like to be crawled is linked to in any matter. You can create natural links to them, e.g. from your navigation or in text links, or you can put them in a sitemap.

You can also link to these pages from websites like facebook, twitter to have fast crawling.

Tell Google in your robots.txt that it can access your website and make sure non of the pages you would like to be indexed carry the noindex-value in the robots meta-tag.

Good luck!

Hi Noamflint, we develop a lot of e-commerce websites and I want to fill you in how we tackled this problem several months ago and how.

We deleted the anchor of the image! In our code it looks something like:

The New iPad

As you see at the moment there is no anchor on the image, but our clients do want this. because of usabilty. and people just love clicking images.

We solved this with CSS:

div { position: relative; padding-top: 30px; display: block; }

div h3 { position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; display: block; }

div h3 a { width: 200px; height: 230px; display: block; }

div img { width: 200px; height: 200px; display: block; }

This code above is pseudo of course, but i hope you see what we are trying to accomplish. The anchor tag is positioned absolute in the parent div. With the dimensions on it, the link is above the image, so when people hover the image. they automatically hover the link. Clicking in it, takes them to the detail page.

You should try it! Maybe it will help you out.

Hi all, i notited this discussion in another question (http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-to-properly-link-to-products-from-category-page)

I answered there with a technical solution, which i also would like to share here.

http://jsfiddle.net/D7vMG/3/

I made a fiddle about it, what do you think? Is it over optimization, or is it just a nice trick to get only one link, which is really well optimized?

It is pretty much as if the anchor flows over the entire image.

I did this a while back on a dutch telecom website called typhone dot nl. Check it out, it's on the frontpage (the offer blocks all have it)

The H3 is just there as an example. If I just got an H1 above all products, i use h2's, if there is a h2, i use h3's. and so on.

Yeah of course, you can style the link any way you want. Even hide it although I wouldn't recommend that hehe.

I made this jsfiddle for you: http://jsfiddle.net/D7vMG/1/

good luck trying it yourself!

I would do something like this: http://jsfiddle.net/D7vMG/3/ (do you see the z-indexes? it makes sure the anchor is higher positioned then the paragraph.)

You can of course use only the <a>-tag and not a heading. In that case you can put the position: absolute on the a-tag.</a>

<a>Hope it helps! Good luck!</a>

No problem, glad I could help!

I believe the links are placed with a javascript on page ready, so in that case 'no'. You have to put anchor-tags on your website, but there is no href attribute set to them, so there isnt an actual link.