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09-03-09, 10:11 PM
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| iBook  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Nottingham
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  | Useful SEO TipWe all know that duplicate content can harm your rankings, but did you know that unless you configure it properly your own site cna be the cause of its own duplicate content. huh? Basically your site can be accessed either by http://domain. com or http://www.domain. com when indexing happens this can bee seen as duplicate content. To get round this you need to have access to your .htaccess file on the route of your site. In here enter the following code. Code: Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^sitename.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.sitename.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
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09-03-09, 10:40 PM
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| Mini Mac  Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: St Helens
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 | I have been using this for a while and it means that all backlinks that include either www or not count towards to same domain
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09-03-09, 10:53 PM
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09-03-09, 10:55 PM
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| basically if somebody visits sitename.com they actually get to www.sitename.com |
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09-03-09, 10:57 PM
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09-03-09, 10:59 PM
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| i would imagine so yeah, ive never seen it done that way though |
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09-03-09, 11:41 PM
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| iPod 60gb  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Northampton
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| I believe you can do this via Google webmaster tools also.
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10-03-09, 05:05 PM
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| I think some hosts do this automatically. Mine does (I think)
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12-04-09, 03:14 AM
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21-07-09, 05:29 PM
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| This is good, thanks for posting it, i will change my site straight away  |
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27-01-10, 01:20 PM
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| iPod 30gb  Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Cheltenham England
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| Cool. and "www.sitename.com" is a redirect to a real site
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27-01-10, 01:25 PM
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| Well cheers for the 6months bump! But still, it's useful and I still need to get around to doing this!
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27-01-10, 02:45 PM
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| So all we do it enter that code, with our own domains, into the website on the html bit? Nothing else?
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27-01-10, 02:47 PM
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| been doing this since I started thought it was common knowledge :S
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27-01-10, 02:53 PM
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| I tried doing this through google webmaster tools and it said I had to verify the http://domain? I've verified the http://www.domain?
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27-01-10, 03:08 PM
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| ride your go to notepad, paste the code obviously changing the website links and save that as a .htaccess file (not as a .txt) then upload it to your root folder. it will redirect any links going from hxxp://sitename.com to hxxp://www.sitename.com. it means all your backlinks will point to the same site
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27-01-10, 06:24 PM
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| Many thanks mate. Will get on that
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27-01-10, 06:55 PM
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28-01-10, 08:23 AM
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| Thanks i'll do that tonight then
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29-01-10, 01:02 PM
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| Also, make sure that you don't just link to the http://site.com and throw in some links to the http://www.site.com. This'll make Google think your linking is more natural. |
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