[jroh]

I learned a great trick that will help your page ranking and link building using a 301 redirect. If somebody links to www.yoursite.com and somebody else links to yoursite.com, Google will assign a separate pagerank for each of those. The way to solve that is to redirect anything from yoursite.com to go to www.yoursite.com.


Add the code below to your .htaccess file replacing "yoursite" with your site's name:

RewriteEngine On
rewritecond %{http_host} ^yoursite.com
rewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]



Here's a link to more on 301 redirects: Steven Hargrove : How to redirect a web page, the smart way

[Stephen McPherson]

Thanks for that. Now I just need to locate my .htaccess file. :confused:

[tplahav]

Originally Posted by Stephen McPherson

Thanks for that. Now I just need to locate my .htaccess file. :confused:

Hi Stephen,
The .htacces file is in your file manager. This is the first file after all the folders.

It is important for everyone to use this code and redirect their site.com to www.site.com. When it comes to traffic it looks like 2 different websites, and you want both to be counted in.

It's easy to do just copy and paste.

Tanny

[Alan Mater]

This is something everyone should do to help their website rankings. I wasn't made aware of this until earlier this year, so thank you jroh for posting it here for everyone to see.

Alan

[jroh]

The .htaccess file should be in your root directory, it will be in something like "public_html" or "www". You will need to use an FTP manager program. Here is a link to one that has a 30 day free trial - click here. Locate the file and download it to your desktop, then open it with Microsoft Notepad or another text editor. Just cut and paste the code from above, save, then upload back to your directory.

I am no computer wiz and it took me all of a couple of minutes. Works great too....everything redirects to www.... like the others have said, it prevents your site from looking like 2 different sites and splitting the value you get from your backlinks.

[ofir]

Sometimes there is no .htaccess file at all , so just create one in your main folder.

[landon]

Hi Jroh, What exactly are you talking about. Is this something you have to do with your host 4 profit web panel. I am a total newbie and need more explanation. How do I do that? Dianne

[jroh]

No, it is not something you have to do. It is just a good idea to do it if you are trying to make your site more search engine friendly.