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Node.js: Is short route naming SEO friendly?

In a SEO point of view, do the following two routes make some differences? Or is a bot smart enough to crawl and index both routes as the landing home page in other views? 

/* GET home page. */
router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
    res.render('index');
});

or

/* GET home page. */
router.get('/index', function(req, res, next) {
    res.render('index');
});

So for SEO purpose, should I use <a href='/'>...</a> or <a href='/index'>...</a>?

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  1. 0 
    router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
    res.render('index');
});

    ‘/’ will be your home page or base url

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  2. 0

    For SEO purposes, /index holds no extra value over /. I would just stick with / because it’s the default expectation of any visitor / bot to find something there when it crawls your domain.

    You want to include descriptive keywords in the route when you have specific product / article pages. For example /2392-sheep-brushing-widget is a better route than /products?id=2392 because it will help search engines provide it as a result for someone searching “widget for brushing my sheep”. However “index” holds no meaning for this purpose.

    My rule of thumb is to include (a reasonable amount of) keywords/title in the URL and try to exclude as much of the non-keyword crud as possible. For example /webapp/store/v2.3/products/details/2392 is a very poor URL that holds no value to a search engine or human.

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