SteveRothyBergy
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Hi everyone.I run a community/forums based website, and it's just recently taken a decent hold in the SERPs. I've decided the homepage of our site is quite useless and is hindering our site's friendliness, since 99% of the users only want the forums. I think I've pretty much decided I want to setup my home page at:http://www.mysite.comto redirect to:http://www.mysite.com/forums/So when someone visits the main page, they're looking at the forums, eliminating the useless fluff of the homepage.My question now is what is the best way for me to do this, while maintaining my PR and backlinks? My homepage is 1PR above my forums currently. I've heard horror stories about using a 302 redirect, and I'm afraid this would be an improper use of a 301...I do have an example though, which seems to be similar to what I want to do. If you go to http://blogger.com (PR10 site), there's a 301 redirect to http://www.blogger.com. I already have a 301 from domain.com to http://www.domain.com on my site. However when you request http://www.blogger.com, it uses a 302 redirect to bounce you to http://www.blogger.com/start. Could this be the correct way, since it seems very similar to what I'm looking to do?Our site, being community based, relies on getting new members almost entirely from SE results, so it's critical I don't lose our ranking.Thanks!Another 301 in yoru .htaccess file will do the trick.Code: [ Select ]But why 301 over 302 like Blogger?A 301 is a permanent redirect, 302 temporary. This link http://www.seotoday.com/browse.php/cate ... /index.php explains better than I can why a 301 is better.So why does blogger use 302? lol