Well lets look at the different aspects:

as it stands vb suite defaults to forum folder with forum and content (.php) being the landing pages

Seems weird to me that a suite sits in a folder natively.

Therefore if you look at link depth, vb as it stands defies the old common rules.

So in my view a landing page in the domain root as a portal to other areas of your site should not detract or indeed hurt you.

From an seo perspective its like anything, if you try and spam the system, your gonna get penalised, but if it stands on its own merits in place of a redirect then why not ?

Ste

K I guess I will keep the intro page for a couple of days and keep an eye on my google analytics and see if I notice any negative results from it.

Thanks on the compliment about the intro page :)

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Hey quick question... sorry for double post.
Since I uploaded index.html, it appears my vbadvanced cmps is not there anymore, since i guess it overwrote the other html. So what files to rename/delete or what to do to make my vbadvanced cmps work again?

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Ok so my vbadvanced index is named index.php and my intro page is named index.html My home button on my site takes me to index.html instead of index.php like it used to before, I have no idea why it takes me to a different page if it always used to take me to index.php and now instead takes me to index.html (the intro page)

And the intro page when you click home takes me to forum.php when its set for index.php. and clicking on forums on the intro page also takes you to forum.php but forums button is set for forum.php

Eh anyone know how to fix this? :)

.html always takes precedence over .php

k well any way to make my index.php still act as the vbadvanced cmps? Because clicking home on the intro page and clicking home on the site tabs on top left, still takes you to either forums (from intro) or to intro (from tabs)