How to change my Homepage url?

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adam11soccer

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im looking to change my homepage permalink to add my keyword to it. Problem is I don’t wanna lose my backlinks. I know this can be done with a 301 redirect. Any suggestions or help would be great. I’m not exactly sure how to do it. Thx

 

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Saurabhsoni

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Is It a wordpress site or html?

 

Exitwound

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You can do a 301 redirect with your server's .htaccess file. Or alternatively if you are running wordpress use a redirection plugin.

 

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adam11soccer

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I am using Wordpress. So would I have to create a new duplicate page with the new permalink?

 

Exitwound

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adam11soccer said:

I am using Wordpress. So would I have to create a new duplicate page with the new permalink?

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You could do it that way, yes. Then you could use the "redirection" plugin to 301 the root page to the duplicate one. There is probably a cleaner way to do this with your functions.php file or .htaccess, but this should work until you find a better solution.

 

Runitt

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I would create a redirect. Pretty easy to do through your hosting. But yes duplicating the page should work.

 

Nia Jax

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301 redirect is the best option & if you don't go with 301 redirect so what's the next option to go?

 

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Seeo

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301 is the best solution