Put a 301 from /main to home page, now I'm panicking

[curveballmedia]

Hi,

Our website is 10 years old, but I only noticed last night we had a https://curveball-media.co.uk/main page which has some badly formatted copy on.

I redirected (301) to the home page https://curveball-media.co.uk/

Then I had a slight panic that maybe this was the wrong thing to do and it should be like it was with the home page and the /main page.

Should I have left it or did I do the right thing?

[Carlito08]

@BlueprintMarketing
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Really thank you very much

[BlueprintMarketing]

@curveballmedia

/main if it was identical or the same copy as the homepage yes you made the right decision by using that 301 redirect

there are no back links to /main the only advice I have is I would've done the redirect via server-side or on a reverse proxy like cloudflare.com method two of three cloud flare method three of three cloud flare
this tool fastly is my favorite however it is not as simple as cloudflare fastly.com rather than Yoast simply for site speed reasons

Status Code	URL	IP	Page Type	Redirect Type	Redirect URL
301	https://curveball-media.co.uk/main	185.96.67.126	server_redirect	permanent	https://www.curveball-media.co.uk/
200	https://www.curveball-media.co.uk/	185.96.67.126	normal	none	none

[curveballmedia]

@emilie-martin Thank you! I think my badly worded question was more about whether Wordpress should have a /main page as well as the / home page. If that makes sense?

[emilie.martin]

@curveballmedia Hi there, it completely depends on what you want to do with the page! It is common practice to redirect one URL to another. When doing this, it is critical to observe best practices in order to maintain SEO value. A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect that passes full link equity (ranking power) to the redirected page. In most instances, the 301 redirect is the best method for implementing redirects on a website.

You can read more about best practices for redirects here.

Another useful resource is this blog post, where Cyrus Shephard writes about rules of 301 redirects.

I hope this helps.