301 Redirects - Bit Confused....

Hi All,
Im hoping someone can give me some friend advice on the below. I have just ran my website through a SEO analysis tool which has provided me some very good feedback. One of the recommendations the site has come up with is 301Redirects.

Below is the report.

Permanent Redirect Not Found

Search engines may think www.calosol.com and calosol.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. For example, www.calosol.com seems to have 7,902 inbound links whereas calosol.com has 8,615 inbound links. By correctly configuring a permanent 301 redirect, the search rankings might improve as all inbound links are correctly counted for the website.

The situation is im not too sure where to go from here. I understand there are various methods of adding 301 redirects. Below are 2 questions im hoping some of you seo experts can help me solve

1) What would be the best method for me to use?
2) What do i need to do to implement it ?

Regards
Tom

 

I have read the www and non www cause search engines to see effectively 2 different sets of pages. I am not sure how true this is.

If you do want to redirect then a 301 redirect is the best for search engines as its all done by the server. Basically you need to either edit or create a .htaccess file. If you have a search for htaccess 301 redirect. This site gives some useful info http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm
Only thing to remember is what type of server you are running i.e apache or IIS etc....

 

Thanks mate for your reply ;D

Just looking at the link you provided now!

Regards
Tom

 

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

Just add the above to your .htaccess file in your top level directory, make sure to change yourdomain.com to your actualy domain name.

 

If you're using ASP on an IIS server, pop this code in at the top of the page you want to redirect;

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
If InStr(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME"),"www") = 0 Then
	Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
	Response.AddHeader "Location","http://www.yoursite.com"
		 Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST")
		 Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")
End if
%>

Code (markup):

See also this site; http://www.seoworkers.com/seo-articles-tutorials/permanent-redirects.html