SEO impact of redirecting from / to a top-level category

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.

References:

https://community.lithium.com/t5/Developer-Knowledge-Base/Using-a-FreeMarker-Page-Initialization-Script/ta-p/125767

https://community.lithium.com/t5/Developer-Documentation/bd-p/dev-doc-portal?section=freemarker#l::%7B%22p%22:%22%2Frefer%2FcontextObjects%22,%22h%22:%22%23httpResponse%22%7D