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301 Redirect Question.

by SocialDemon
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We know a domain name is the sub domain of www. Now in wordpress we can change a domain from www to non www. Now my question is if I build backlinks to www version of the domain and then redirect the www version to non www version and again I build backlinks to non www versions then will I get double link juice?
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  • Profile picture of the author Trent Brownrigg
    No, the search engines are smarter than that!
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    hm. But how are you sure? Did you do any experiment on it?
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  • Profile picture of the author loops55
    Let Google know about your preferred domain. (Webmaster Tools). You need to add both the WWW and non-WWW version, then set your preferred domain (the non-www in your case)

    After adding this
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourwebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
    to the beginning of your htaccess file, Google won't treat the WWW and non WWW as seperate pages anymore.

    It is no secret that Google penalizes duplicate content. Do the 301 Redirect ASAP. I have a post on my blog about this.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Originally Posted by SocialDemon View Post

    We know a domain name is the sub domain of www.
    Incorrect. Technically www is the hostname portion of the domain name.

    Now in wordpress we can change a domain from www to non www. Now my question is if I build backlinks to www version of the domain and then redirect the www version to non www version and again I build backlinks to non www versions then will I get double link juice?
    No. As it is a 301 permanent redirect, if you have a link to

    www.example.com

    and

    example.com

    where you have a 301 redirect to example.com, then it is effectively the same as building two links directly to example.com
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