Setting the home page slug

[bburro]

Greetings!

I have my home page set to static and am not using the default home page layout that came with the Parallax Pro theme. I have set one of my pages as the home page, and am wondering what the bet practice is for setting it's slug.

It seems that if the page is accessible via both mysite.com and mysite.com/page-slug I am not using best SEO practices, as only one address should link to each page.

What should I do to correct this? When I clear the slug it defaults to the page title-- I can't leve it blank...?

I am preparing the site on localhost so no link is available.

Thanks!

EDIT: It appears that the mysite.com/page-slug is redirected to mysite.com automatically, so I guess everything is working fine...?

[Christoph]

Hi,

yes, this is normal WordPress behaviour.
You don't need to do anything.

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[Erik D. Slater]

Backing up @Christoph here ...

Not only is it typical behaviour ... it is the desired behaviour. You absolutely want to have those two pages pointing (i.e. redirecting) to one page ... what is referred to here as the canonical URL.

If mysite.com/page-slug and mysite.com are the same page - and there is no redirect action in place - then we have the age-old duplicate content issue. Not the end of the world by any means ... but the search engines would then need to decide which of the two to index and/or rank. They may index both (I've seen Bing do that, while Google generally doesn't) ... but they certainly won't rank both.

In any case, your visitor experience is more important than search engine activity ... since you don't really want to confuse your visitors 🙂

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