Say there's a web application that runs on example.com
, would there be a penalty for 301 redirecting the root of the domain (example.com/
) to subdomain.example.com
for purposes of hosting the marketing website for an application? Obviously we would expect subdomain.example.com
to be what is ranked in the search engine, not example.com
.
We would want other paths on example.com
like example.com/path/to/resource
to index normally, and be unaffected by the 301 on the root path.