Redirects

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by dmje, Jul 23, 2005.

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    I am not sure if this is the right place to post this inquiry, but here goes. My site is hosted on a Linux based server and I noticed the following when I went in to setup some redirects for pages that no longer exist....
    http://mysite.com/(page to redirect) --> http://(where you want it redirected to)

    not sure how to phrase my next question to get what I want to know across......

    It is my understanding that non www pages and www pages make a difference in the search engines. By looking at the above, does that mean that all my pages are non www?

    I ran a small test and checked some of my pages both with and without the www and most of them were the same except some of the non www pages did not have page rank whereas the www pages did. I, to my recollection, do not have an links of any type going to the non www site

    Am I making a mountain out of molehill here, or is this something I should be concerned about or am I just totally confused and way off base?

    I am thourghly confused...............

    I have included a couple of examples:

    http://bestofthehome.com/linkmachine/resources/resources.html

    http://www.bestofthehome.com/linkmachine/resources/resources.html

    As you can see, the only visable difference is in the Google TBPR


    Thanks
     
    dmje, Jul 23, 2005 IP
  2. minstrel

    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    If you are asking is it normal to see a difference between http://yoursite.com and http://www.yoursite.com, the answer is yes.

    The solution is to always use the www version for your internal links and do what you can to ensure that all directory submissions and other backlinks also conform to this.
     
    minstrel, Jul 24, 2005 IP
  3. wissam

    wissam Well-Known Member

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    #3

    I agree with you ...
     
    wissam, Jul 24, 2005 IP
  4. siraxi

    siraxi Peon

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    I'm concerned about the same issue: there are some links that point to my http://www site (PR 4) and some other pointed only to http:// site (PR 1).
    Does Google and the other SE consider http://www and http:// as being two different sites??
     
    siraxi, Jul 25, 2005 IP
  5. minstrel

    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    Yes. That's why the two versions have different PR values.

    But in truth, the primary effect is in terms of PR. It isn't going to necessarily affect either your SE ranking or your traffic.

    See above: The best thing to do is to try to ensure that all your internal links and as many of your backlinks as possible conistently use one form or the other, with the preference going to the www version.
     
    minstrel, Jul 26, 2005 IP
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    If it really bothers you, how about setting up a redirect, either using server config (ie .htaccess) or making your homepage into a CGI script (index.cgi or index.pl) that looks at the SERVER_NAME or HTTP_HOST environment variables and does the redirect if a request comes in for non-www.

    LC
     
    Labcoat88, Jul 26, 2005 IP