With www and with out www, I need HELP

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what about pagerank if I do non-www to www redirect ?

 

over time, your pagerank will actually increase because it is not being split between 2 URL's anymore. you may notice a decrease in the very short run, but not usually.

 

will the PR checkers show fake now ?

And I have to wait till next PR update to get increase.

 

not sure what u mean by show fake.

pagerank is being updated all the time, only the pagerank toolbar (what you see) gets updated every few months. when you make this change you should see an effect in a short period of time.

 

I am talking about PR checker tools like checkpagerank.net

will they show same PR for non-www and www versions ?

 

I am having a Forum and i can see indexed pages in both URL's www.yoursite.com and http://yoursite.com
But the WWW version is having more pages indexed as compared to NON-WWW
I am using VB forum
SO shall i use this redirect ?
will there be any problem further for my site in Page Rank and Indexing pages ?
Also if i can see result for indexed pages for both version is it recommended to have a redirect to only one version ?

 

It would actually increase if you had links spread between both different URLs, it will not effect your Pagerank negatively.

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

Code (markup):

 

I did the same thing. Redirected from www to non-www version.
And I think I should stick with that.

 

those tools are based on google's pagerank toolbar. so whatever google thinks is what checkpagerank.net will report. that being said, as long as you have one URL, your PR's should be the same.

 

Problem loggin in to smf forums version 1.1.4 after adding code to .htaccess. Hey everyone I added the two lines of code and it redirected all of sites fine to www version... When trying to log into my forum it will not allow me now, nor will it allow new registration. I went and removed the 2 lines of code... smf worked fine... replaced the two lines and smf back to screwy. Any ideas as to what is happening here? Currently I have the lines added so all urls are www, and forum will not allow registration. Any help is awesome thx.

 

Cant offer any guarantees with Google but you shouldnt have any problems. It is simply going to take all PR that is pointed at non absolute URLs and pass it to your absolute URL.

In SEO I always force the sites to the absolute URL....might take time for things to get straight but SEO is a practice that when implemented correctly can last for years on end.

Lastly Google reindexes pages all the time...canonical URls resolved or not....

The only problem with that is Apache does not recommend doing things backwards....and probably for a good reason.

Might want to ask the hosting company, but that may have to do with your forums being at sub-domain level?

 

I dont know what happened... I just decided to stick with non-www for site seeing as how that is how ive been working on it. Did the reverse from www ->non www in htaccess and everything seems to be working fine.

 

Like everyone has mentioned the 301 hta redirect, and do make the changes in google webmaster too

preferred URL

 

Thanks for a nice reply SEM.

- but its working without any problem. when i type http://www.domain - it is getting redirected to http://domain

 

Hey MeetHere please help me in this

 

Yes you should redirect for sure to avoid this mismatch.
yes redirect to www version.
no problem with future pagerank or indexing. Re-indexing will be done within few days. pagerank remains same for both versions.

 

you don't want visitors to search http://www.yoursite.com or http://yoursite.com in search engines... so perhaps focus should not be on what do you get when you search for your site with or without www!!!

What do you get with keyword search? It makes no difference to end user (like me) if i see a website with www or without www in google search.

my 2c

thx

 

try registering in google webmaster tools .. you can set to www. or without ..

 

Thank you very much
I have redirected to WWW version
Everything solved
Now my all URL's are in www version
Thanks for this help - REP added

just for a knowledge do you know why DP have such a strong SEO ?
have they done anything special or they have just done quality link building ?

 

Dp have not done any link building/advertisement etc..

It is age and quality of content that makes it search engine friendly.