I have a .co that ranks well for many keywords on google.com. Few days ago I dicovered that I forgot to set the domain in the google webmaster tools for the US audience but anyway like I said the website got lots of hits from US already. Issue nr 1. 1. Should I change the settings in google webmaster tools for the US audience ? 2. Do I loose traffic doing this if the website is already well indexed ? Issue nr 2. 1.The website is well indexed without www; what happens if I add a htaccess file pointing to WWW? 2. Do I loose traffic doing this if the website is already well indexed without the WWW or the traffic will increase? Issue nr.3 If the WWW is a must than how do I merge those two? RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mywebsite.co [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.co/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?mywebsite\.co/ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png|jpg)$ http://i.imgur.com/test.png [L] Code (markup): Thank you very much.
Issue #1: 1. it is in US by default incase you want to target specific for any country you want then you use web T for google know this. 2. You will lose traffic if you target with country other than google Issue #2: 1. It is no problem when you direct to www. but for me, i always keep the same manner of the URL as this is the link which could keep you some PR for some update 2. You will still have that traffic Issue #3: I am not sure with .htaccess but if you use WP platform, just change your domain in the setting to www. then evrything will work perfectly. Hope it help