diff --git a/next.config.mjs b/next.config.mjs
index 239bc71..3042b64 100644
--- a/next.config.mjs
+++ b/next.config.mjs
@@ -50,11 +50,15 @@ const nextConfig = {
 
   async redirects() {
     return [
-      // Root redirect
+      // Homepage canonical: '/' is the real route now (src/app/page.tsx
+      // re-exports from src/app/home-page/page.tsx). The legacy
+      // /home-page URL gets a 301 permanent redirect to '/' so any
+      // crawler entry for /home-page consolidates link equity onto
+      // the canonical root.
       {
-        source: '/',
-        destination: '/home-page',
-        permanent: false,
+        source: '/home-page',
+        destination: '/',
+        permanent: true,
       },
       // WordPress admin redirects for broadcastbeat.com (301 permanent)
       {
diff --git a/src/app/home-page/page.tsx b/src/app/home-page/page.tsx
index 2a8d21b..90c5403 100644
--- a/src/app/home-page/page.tsx
+++ b/src/app/home-page/page.tsx
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
   title: 'Broadcast Beat — Broadcast Engineering News & Insights',
   description: 'The digital platform for broadcast engineering professionals. Breaking news, deep-dive features, and industry spotlights from NAB to IBC and beyond.',
   alternates: {
-    canonical: '/home-page',
+    canonical: '/',
   },
   openGraph: {
     title: 'Broadcast Beat — Broadcast News',
     description: 'Breaking news and insights for broadcast engineering professionals.',
-    url: '/home-page',
+    url: '/',
     type: 'website',
     images: [
       {
diff --git a/src/app/page.tsx b/src/app/page.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b546f23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/page.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+// Canonical homepage at '/'.
+// Content is defined in ./home-page/page.tsx (kept there to avoid
+// breaking the relative imports its components depend on). The legacy
+// /home-page URL still resolves but 301-redirects here via the
+// next.config.mjs redirects() block.
+export { default } from "./home-page/page";
+export { metadata } from "./home-page/page";
diff --git a/src/app/sitemap.ts b/src/app/sitemap.ts
index dc6c944..8939bc0 100644
--- a/src/app/sitemap.ts
+++ b/src/app/sitemap.ts
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ async function listEventSlugs(): Promise<{ slug: string; updated_at: string }[]>
 export default async function sitemap(): Promise<MetadataRoute.Sitemap> {
   const staticPages: MetadataRoute.Sitemap = [
     { url: `${BASE_URL}/`, lastModified: new Date(), changeFrequency: 'daily', priority: 1.0 },
-    { url: `${BASE_URL}/home-page`, lastModified: new Date(), changeFrequency: 'daily', priority: 1.0 },
     { url: `${BASE_URL}/news`, lastModified: new Date(), changeFrequency: 'hourly', priority: 0.9 },
     { url: `${BASE_URL}/gear`, lastModified: new Date(), changeFrequency: 'daily', priority: 0.8 },
     { url: `${BASE_URL}/technology`, lastModified: new Date(), changeFrequency: 'daily', priority: 0.8 },