301 Redirect Question

I had an automated website review done on my site I am working on and recieved this message below:

Permanent Redirect Not Found
Search engines may think www.documentaryconnection.com and documentaryconnection.com are two different sites.You should set up a permanent redirect (technically called a "301 redirect") between these sites. Once you do that, you will get full search engine credit for your work on these sites.

My question is how do I go about doing a redirect.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am new to this.

Thanks

Al

 

Do a google search, there is information out there specific to your webserver. I hope that helps. Where we found it.

 

My site is on Google Sites and domain with GoDaddy.

 

If your site is on Apache (Cpanel), use htaccess to create a 301 redirect. If your site is on IIS server then you should use canonical tag.

 

I really don't have any idea about google sites, but you can fix this issue by uploading .htaccess file, if your website runs on Apache server.

#Simply put this code in your htaccess file:

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

 

Hey I did some resesarch and found this thread, which specific to your problem..... it is mentioned that you would need to make some changes in your godaddy cpanel!

Hope it works: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sites/thread?tid=77d95ec7847f4585&hl=en

 

Thank you for this information.

 

Use google webmaster tool

 

Its a great option. You can tell Google to display urls with www or without www.

 

i have .net based website. I want to redirect xyz.com to www.xyz.com but my site redirect to xyz.com to www.xyz.com/index.aspx. Give me relevent reply.

 

The most important info that the OP needs to provide is whether his site is hosted on a linux server or a windows server.
If on a windows server, does his hosting provider used asp or asp.net.
I am not trying to make things complicated, but the code used to redirect will change as per the above conditions..........

 

if your hosting provides cpanel you can just go to domains management and set up a 301 redirect without any additional coding
like editing .htaccess which if done wrong will make your site unusable (its always better to raise a support ticket and let your hosting take care of editing .htaccess for you)