homepage: make '/' the canonical route, 301 /home-page → /

Previous state: '/' was 307-redirected to '/home-page', and the
home-page route declared canonical='/home-page'. Net effect on
SEO: Google indexed '/home-page' as the canonical homepage and
treated '/' as a transient redirect (no link equity passed).

Changes:
- next.config.mjs: replace the source:'/' destination:'/home-page'
  temporary redirect with source:'/home-page' destination:'/'
  permanent (301). Any existing crawler entry for /home-page now
  consolidates onto '/'.
- src/app/page.tsx (new): re-exports default + metadata from
  ./home-page/page so '/' serves the homepage directly. No file
  moves required, no relative-import breakage in the home-page
  component subtree.
- src/app/home-page/page.tsx: canonical and openGraph.url
  '/home-page' → '/'. The page still builds at /home-page but
  the 301 above will redirect any hit before render.
- src/app/sitemap.ts: drop the duplicate /home-page entry — Google
  shouldn't be told about a URL that just redirects.

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: '/',
+        source: '/home-page',
-        destination: '/home-page',
+        destination: '/',
-        permanent: false,
+        permanent: true,
       },
       // WordPress admin redirects for broadcastbeat.com (301 permanent)
       {

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: [
       {

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";

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 },