301 Redirect Question!

[Chloe Brooks]

Hi Warriors,

Let's say that I have a website and you can access the content as below...This will create duplication issues in Google if I understood it correctly.

www.abc.com
www.abc.com/index.html
www.abc.com/index.asp
www.abc.com/
abc.com
www.abc.com/home.html

From my understanding, to solve the issue I would have to create a 301 redirect to tell Google my preferred URL version.
So would this be the correct code to take care of all the canonical issues above so Google will recognize that www.abc.com is the referred version by putting this in the .htaccess file? Or is there anything else that is needed? Also would this be applicable to all sites (asp,php,html, jsp etc)?

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


Appreciate Your Help..

Many Thanks,

Chloe

[TomBond]

I think this problem is less important than it once was. Google know's that so many sites have www.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com/index that it's aware they are not all scammers.

I can't help you with code though I'm afraid but I wouldn't say if in doubt just do each iteration seperatly.

[Geraldm]

Hi,

Adding redirect rules to the .htaccess file is best.

The following code will redirect users (as well as Google) to the www version of the website as well as redirect index webpages to the standard root /

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.abc\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.abc.com/$1 [L,R=301]
redirect 301 /index.html http://www.abc.com/
redirect 301 /index.asp http://www.abc.com/
redirect 301 /home.html http://www.abc.com/

Hope this helps.

[Chloe Brooks]

Thanks a lot Netfq,
So basically the below script will work on all websites (php,asp,html, jsp etc)?

So if I want to make sure that people who type in abc.com without the www and I want this 301 redirect to www.abc.com, should I just add that to the below and if so how?


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.abc\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.abc.com/$1 [L,R=301]
redirect 301 /index.html http://www.abc.com/
redirect 301 /index.asp http://www.abc.com/
redirect 301 /home.html http://www.abc.com/

Thanks a million
Chloe

[Geraldm]

Originally Posted by Chloe Brooks

So basically the below script will work on all websites (php,asp,html, jsp etc)?

No.. It will only work on apache servers which have modrewrite installed.

Originally Posted by Chloe Brooks

So if I want to make sure that people who type in abc.com without the www and I want this 301 redirect to www.abc.com, should I just add that to the below and if so how?

Just add the following lines to the bottom of your .htaccess file:

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

[Chloe Brooks]

Thanks a lot

So what about the other versions below as well as the version without the www?

http://www.abc.com/index.php
http://www.abc.com/home.php
http://abc.com/
abc.com

etc

So how would I put all these together in the htaccess file?

So sorry for my lack of knowledge here..

Thanks a bunch,
Chloe

[Geraldm]

Originally Posted by Chloe Brooks

So how would I put all these together in the htaccess file?

See my previous post here: 301 Redirect Question!

[Chloe Brooks]

Thanks Netfq,
This (creating htaccess files) seems to work for websites in php and html (sites that use a linux server). What about websites that use ASP how would that be implemented?

So in this case lets say I have the below versions:

www.abc.com/index.asp
abc.com.asp
www.abc.home.asp

and I want them all to 301 to www.abc.com

Sorry for bothering you again for this...

Millions of thanks
Chloe

[Geraldm]

Originally Posted by Chloe Brooks

Thanks Netfq,
This (creating htaccess files) seems to work for websites in php and html (sites that use a linux server). What about websites that use ASP how would that be implemented?

Windows IIS servers do not use .htaccess so therefore the above solution will not work. I've never used this setup on an IIS server before but I know there are ISAPI filters you can use to manipulate the URL etc.

Have a look at: Helicon Tech - IIS modules and ISAPI filters for URL rewriting and search engine optimization