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301 Redirect?

by greenandchic
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Someone pointed out to me that my website is actually two different sites: www.greenandchic.com and greenandchic.com and that I need to do a 301 redirect so that I wont have duplicate content, etc.

I contacted my host about this and they said that 301 redirects causes more problems than it solves, that I would lose my attached Wordpress blog, and so on.

When I Googled this, I didnt see any downsides to doing a 301 redirect for my site.

Because I have a Wordpress blog thats attached to my main website, would it be a problem to do a 301? Is their any downsides to do this?
#301 #redirect
  • Profile picture of the author ehicks727
    Add this to your .htaccess file

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

    obviously, replace the example.com with your own domain.

    Then you need to go into Google Webmaster Tools, there is a setting under SETTINGS and PREFFERED DOMAIN and set it to the www setting

    Google will correct over time. You'll be fine.
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