Permanent Redirect(301)

**ashisharora_83** · 06-11-2007, 05:32 AM

Hi
I have launched my seo blog site 3 weeks back. my site is can be accessed from mysite.org as well as www. mysite.org
can i solve this problem because search engine will regard my site as 2 different sites and that may affect my PR.
and how shall i redirect my site mysite.org to www. mysite.org or www. mysite.org to mysite.org
Please suggest.
Thanks in advance

**nickharper** · 08:43 AM

Would this make a difference?

**seolman** · 06-11-2007, 10:03 AM

Won't make any difference.

**stOx** · 06-11-2007, 02:59 PM

put his in an .htaccess

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

(obviously change the relevant parts)

**Learning Newbie** · 06-11-2007, 05:44 PM

If it's for duplicate content purposes, you may find it easier to work with your robots.txt file, and simply ban them from the straight domain with no www prefix.

**BreaktheSilence** · 06-12-2007, 12:29 AM

I'd go with Stox's recommendation and add the redirect into the .htaccess...

As for the difference, there is the possibility of duplicate cache as well as a potential penalty for duplicate content. Specifying one or the other simply serves to streamline the process.

**vangogh** · 06-12-2007, 02:17 AM

Go with the .htaccess solution and the 301 redirect.

Search engines see domain.com and www.domain.com as two different sites. If you were to get 1 link to domain.com and 1 link to www.domain.com then you have 1 link to each of two sites instead of 2 links to one site.

Technically www is a subdomain of domain.com.

When it comes to Google you can also sign up for Webmaster Central and let them know which URL you prefer, but I think .htaccess (assuming your server is running Apache) is the best approach.

**seolman** · 06-12-2007, 03:20 PM

Help me through my ignorance here... I assume (which is dangerous) you would do this to eliminate what a search engine would consider an additional link level to the content pages? The mention of duplicate content made me think it was irrelevant. I'm not seeing clearly what the advantage to this is if PR is not so critical and sites are not penalized for duplicate content...

signed: DaveBob ignoramus

**vangogh** · 06-12-2007, 07:52 PM

I think the idea is that you can end up hampering your link building efforts. Imagine you get links to:

yourdomain.com
www.yourdomain.com
yourdomain.com/index.html
www.yourdomain.com/index.html

You should have 4 links pointing to your home page, but from a search engine's point of view you have one link to each of four different URLs.

Links into your site are still going to play a huge part in how well your pages rank. It might not be a PR thing, but the links are still important. When people will tell you PR isn't as important as you think, they're not saying links aren't important. Just not links for the sake of PR. That ends up leading you to place value on different links.

It also continues through to the rest of your site. If you use relative paths in internal links then someone who enters yourdomain.com won't see the www on any page. So it can also dilute the links pointing to pages beyond your home page.

**seolman** · 06-12-2007, 11:17 PM

Thanks VanGogh...I'd give you talkupation if I hadn't just given you one for another post...

**vangogh** · 06-13-2007, 01:09 AM

That's ok. Just glad I could help.

**peanutpad** · 06-14-2007, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vangogh

I think the idea is that you can end up hampering your link building efforts. Imagine you get links to:

yourdomain.com
www.yourdomain.com
yourdomain.com/index.html
www.yourdomain.com/index.html

You should have 4 links pointing to your home page, but from a search engine's point of view you have one link to each of four different URLs.

Links into your site are still going to play a huge part in how well your pages rank. It might not be a PR thing, but the links are still important. When people will tell you PR isn't as important as you think, they're not saying links aren't important. Just not links for the sake of PR. That ends up leading you to place value on different links.

It also continues through to the rest of your site. If you use relative paths in internal links then someone who enters yourdomain.com won't see the www on any page. So it can also dilute the links pointing to pages beyond your home page.

does anyone know how to fix this for the search engines using .htaccess?

**BreaktheSilence** · 06-14-2007, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by peanutpad

does anyone know how to fix this for the search engines using .htaccess?

You might want to try scrolling up to post number 4...