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301 Redirect for Blog and SEO question...

by Dayne Dylan Banned
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So I have a new blog, and I'm hearing or reading that you want to make sure you have one main url for your site either with a www or without. The reason, is you loose "link juice". So how do I make my site stay with a www and how do I do this so it doesn't affect my site pages that are already indexed? I'm a bit confused on this.

Thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I hope I'm making sense. I'm just looking for the easiest method and don't want to screw this up.

Thanks!
#301 #blog #question #redirect #seo
  • Profile picture of the author TheRichLife
    Add this tag into the <head> of your site code:

    <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/" />
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  • Profile picture of the author Dayne Dylan
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    Where at, I'm using Wordpress? Sure this won't mess anything up as far as my indexed articles?
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichLife
    I don't use Wordpress, but look for the <head> and </head> tags at the beginning of your site code. Place that tag anywhere between <head> and </head>

    Here's a link to a video of Matt Cutts explaining how/why it works:

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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    You can also set up a re-direct on http://yoursite.com, re-directing to http://www.yoursite.com.

    You can do this through your hosting provider control panel, or just ask your hosting provider to set it up for you. It's a very standard setting and many hosting providers set it up without you even having to ask.

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dayne Dylan
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    Hey Martin, yeah I know how to do that I just wanted to make sure it won't mess up my indexed articles. It is safe, right?
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    • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
      Dayne, hi,

      Perfectly safe because they use a 301 redirect (permanent).

      Cheers,

      Martin.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy Crofford
    If you are using WordPress you shouldn't need to do it. What is your blog?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dayne Dylan
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    Ok great, it looks like I don't need to do anything at all then. Nice
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