SEO impact of redirecting from / to a top-level category
Hi ya'll!
Leveraging top-level categories, we're going to launch a second branded community soon on our single Lithium instance.
All traffic that previously went to / (https://community.meraki.com) will now be redirected to a top-level category URL using http.response.setRedirectUrl in the page initialization script.
So, my question is - will this mess with our SEO? We get quite a lot of search traffic straight to our home page, and I don't want that to go away (or even be temporarily reduced). Do I need to do anything (e.g. submit the change to Google somehow?) to limit the impact to SEO?
Thanks!
If there is a proper 301 redirect, I don't think that the page rank will get affected.
Reference: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6033049?hl=en
I've done a quick test on couple of our existing communities and http.response.setRedirectUrl is setting the response code to 302. I believe that it should be feasible to change the status code to 301 if you want to using the http.response.setRedirectStatus option.
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