Hi EP, I have replied to the email but I’ll also add it here for anyone else interested:

The homepage of a website is always domain.com or domain.com/index.html, it is never domain.com/keyword.

The url mydomain.com/what-i-sell is a sub page, not the homepage.

You are correct in that in most cases a specific sub-page will out rank a generic homepage, but for the main keywords of the website the Homepage will often rank better (due to many factors).

The homepage of a website is always domain.com or domain.com/index.html, it is never domain.com/keyword.

mydomain.com/what-i-sell <- this is a sub page, not the homepage.
You are correct in that in most cases a specific sub-page will out rank a generic homepage.

Any more info, just email me: info@matt-jackson.com

Hi Eko, there’s a free extension on the Opencart marketplace that does this for OC 2.0 / 3.0, it’s a OCMOD, but you can also hard code it -> http://bit.ly/2h3cu8z

To hard code it:

Go to: catalog/controller/startup/seo_url.php
Find the line with: } elseif ($key == ‘path’) {
And on the line BEFORE, add this: } elseif ($data[‘route’] == ‘common/home’) {
$url .= ‘/’;
unset($data[$key]);

Hope that helps!

I try this in opencart 2.2 but not work.

For the information in opencart 2.2 the seo_url is located in /catalog/controller/startup/seo_url.php

Thanks.