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2:00 am
June 10, 2011
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QuoteHey John, I've realized people searching my name may be looking for mindfulness training as well as my music so I created a kind of gateway page on my site juliannaraye.com with a couple of buttons so people can either click the one to go to my music site or the other to be redirected to the mindfulness site. Question: does this hurt my site's SEO in any way?
11:45 pm
June 7, 2011
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As far as i know a gateway page could have some negative ramifications, but I've never been 100% clear on that. I am so not worried about SEO these days that I barely worry about it. Google is making search such an ugly place for businesses and users that I think every business needs to just rely on paid or viral traffic and take whatever SEO comes as a benefit.
But if at all possible, I would try to have a content rich home page, with links to the interior of your site. But that's just me playing it safe.
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3:10 am
June 10, 2011
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ok thanks for that John! I'm not sure how else to manage the fact that every time someone does a search for me the music site dominates... and now I just checked the site and the page I put there isn't even working properly. It's frozen so the links don't function anyway...
12:12 am
June 7, 2011
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It's completely up to you. What I would do is just keep a blog feed as the home page of your main site and just rebrand yourself their to address both potential visitors. I'd then have links on that page to the different aspects of what you do. But that's just me.
You could ad the splash page you're talking about and it may work out just fine. But my assumption is that there would be a bit of an SEO risk there. Google doesn't generally walls up in front of your content. But if it's just your own name that you are concerned about ranking for, then my guess is that you'd be fine. But that's just a guess.
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