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Does homepage have to be named index.html?

Caitlin Level 1

November 17, 2013, 12:55 am

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Does homepage have to be named index.html?

What if you named your homepage home.html or something else and then just linked to it from all pages with the 'Home' button or link. Would it matter that your home page was not named index.html?

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Beverly

Beverly

On one of my very first sites, home.html was the default name for the home page. I'm not sure if it makes a difference in Google what you name your home page. I rarely work with static html sites anymore, but if it were me, I'd just stick with the index.html extension, just in case it's a big deal.

11 years ago

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dennis123

dennis123

Hello Caitlin,
At first, Home page means what first the user see when enters the site & index.html is the page which loads first when site is loaded. So you should use home page as index.html.

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Minolta

Minolta

On one site, I had an index.html and index.htm page. They were two distinct pages, not even related. Only one led to the home page when people clicked through from Google Search.

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postcd

postcd

no, it dont have to be. It can be index.php but also anything else. But if not index.* then you need to create .htaccess file and set index filename here. Like: DirectoryIndex myhomepage.php

10 years ago

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xpertdotmedia

xpertdotmedia

by default its index.html

9 years ago

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