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Q: When I type "Gina Henry" in Google, our website is the top hit, but the linked page is a secondary page and not the main page I want visitors to first go to. What do I do?
Submitted by Bruce Cook, Go Global Travel
www.goglobalinc.com/interview.html is not the page we want visitors to land on!
You are fortunate Grasshopper because being the first search result on Google is not such a bad problem to have!
Actually the solution to your "problem" is fairly simple. What you need to do is set up a redirect link on the search result page (www.goglobalinc.com/interview.html). When a visitor clicks on the Google link, the redirect will send them to the page you really want them to land on.
Now you may say: Thank you master - I am humbled by your knowledge... but what about the content that was on the original page? I still need that page on my website but now when you go there it redirects you to the other page.
OK - the solution for this is a little more complex. You will need to take the original page (the one that you put the redirect on) and rename it. Then you will need to update the links in your general site navigation to reflect the new page name.
Here's how that would work:
- The page coming up on Google is: interview.html.
- Where you really want the vistor to land is index.html.
- Copy interview.html and rename it to interview_2.html.
- Place the redirect to index.html on interview.html.
- Re-code all links on your website that pointed to interview.html to point to interview_2.html.
Here's the code you will need to place in the head of your document to set up the redirect:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.YOURSITE.com/YOURPAGE.html">
IMPORTANT NOTE: Try not to ever take a page off your website server. A search engine may have archived it somewhere and it may pop up in a search result some day. If it's a page you don't use anymore, set up a redirect on it - never waste a search result!
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You have failed to snatch the pebble from my hand Grashopper. May a diseased Yak piddle in your porridge.
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