Home pages and SEO

[forums4windows]

Hello,

Do you mean you want your landing page to just be a link to your main forums?

I'm not totally sure on the impact of that on SEO, however I can't imagine it would be a positive thing. From a user point of view the fewer clicks through to the content they want is better.

Also, I would add that since Google is more focused on ranking for quality, natural content, with the Panda and Penguin updates, that if your landing page contains nothing then it probably won't rank at all, however if your forums have good content then they stand a chance to rank on their own - which begs the question of why needing a manual re-direct at all?