I am linking right?

Just a quicky

Ive been building deep links for an inner page, the website uses wordpress, and on google it shows the page url as

www.creatinejournal.com/creatine-supplement-creatine-side-effects

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does it matter if i link to

http://creatinejournal.com/creatine-supplement-creatine-side-effects/

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Wordpress URLS baffle my head inside out, so please let me know

 

it wonnt make any difference, i guess so.

 

It does make a difference. The two pages are seen as different pages so you need to choose one version and stick to it.

Try to make a htaccess hack to add a trailing slash to all your urls to be safe.

 

argh i wonered why i still wasnt listed for the term lol, ive been using both :\ if you were to browse the website itd use the url

http://creatinejournal.com/creatine-supplement-creatine-side-effects/

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what do you reckon?

 

You actually have 4 versions of each page. Some with a www. and some without. Some with a trailing slash and some without.

Luckily you can solve the problem with some htaccess code. Find somebody who has done this before (with Wordpress).

 

Ok thanks..

 

If i use the htaccess so it only seems like one actual page, will the links to the other types be worthless or will they still count?

 

If the htaccess 301's the wrong version to the right version the links will still count.

 

Ok great and any idea what you would say is the right version i should be using? But how confusing! Four different types How am i suppose to get my head round that one

 

Use this to send everybody to www.site.com rather than site.com

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site.co.uk
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.site.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

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I would also choose the version with a trailing slash.

 

http://creatinejournal.com/creatine-supplement-creatine-side-effects/ is now going to the www version So this means any links i would have got to the non www version will still work the same? and sorry to be a pain in the ass lol but i may have got links with the www. but without slash at the end so like http://www.creatinejournal.com/creatine-supplement-creatine-side-effects does that matter? or is this still a problem?

thanks for the help!

 

You still have the problem with the trailing slash. Not sure how to solve that with wordpress? Somebody else will no doubt chime in though.

 

I doubt it will matter, but keep the trailing slash there just in case

 

its the same ! no difference . but i will prefer the complete link with (www)

 

Actually they are most definately NOT the same.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/toolbar-beta-4
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/toolbar-beta-4/

Check the PR of these pages if you don't believe me.

 

Thanks mad4 once again, will try and find out how to redirect to trailing slash version

edit: almost called you matt then lol

 

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/38441
http://scott.yang.id.au/2005/05/permalink-redirect/

 

Thanks mad4, rep n more rep your way

Just to be certain, all links i have got in the past, whether it be to all 4 of the different URL types, they will still work ?

 

As long as you are being redirected to the right place they will still work.

 

I suggest using the non-www version. (http://no-www.org/). Simple fix with .htaccess and all of your previous links (whether to www or non-www) will still be valid. the .htaccess auto redirects and nobody is the wiser. Definitely better to make sure all links are pointing to the same place since, as mentioned above, Google considers each destination a seperate site.

I have a writeup of a few 301 redirect techniques on my blog. Hope its helpful, or PM me if you need help.

http://christeredwards.com/301-redirect/