I dont know. I wonder if he eats crab. I hope to meet this googleguy at SES. I mean he will be the guy with the googleguy name tag right?
His posts confirmed a few things for me. For example about using 301 to get all PR on the www version of the domain. He admitted that this is an issue for G.
Lets say a www. version has a pr 4 and the http version has pr2. You should do a 301 redirect to www, and that will pass pr value to www? How is the pr passed? All links that are were http will count for www? Can you shoot a link to the page he discusses this on? thanks. I havn't done a redirect before.. use htaccess file for this?
Yes, htaccess. I use it on all my sites. Here is the URL (message number 7): http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/29720.htm These are the lines in the .htaccess Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
I think his comments are worth reading since they seem to be truthful. About the hype: he doesn't give out enough info IMO to justify the hysteria around him
Yes You don't need to change it. Just place those lines in your .htaccess file in the same directory as your index file. After try to go to the non-www version and see if it works.