the WWW vs http:// problem

I am trying to figure out what do do about this. I'm worried that if I redirect my http:// traffic to http://www. I will get penalized. Please help me, I don't want to do the wrong code.

 

In fact it is highly advisable doing such a thing, further readin on your concern? step right here, "Remove redundant URLs" >>> http://www.metamend.com/article-seo-best-practices.html

 

Yea but it doesn't say anything about the code to insert into htaccess that redirects all http://domain.com traffic to the www.domain.com url

 

Ah... I just posted the code on another thread, this is it

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc] 

Code (markup):

 

what would be the code to do the opposite?

 

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

 

wow looking at that I feel stupid for even asking...thanks

 

Hi- I wrote a SEO article on my SEO Blog about this if you care to read it.

 

Thanks for all your replies. Left green for professional and trusted.

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Thanks very much. hope you found the article usefull