Should I redirect my page with a 301?

Hi there

I run http://www.jbosolutions.co.uk

It has been running nearly a year now. Currently if I type www.jbosolutions.co.uk it goes to the site or, if i type in jbosolutions.co.uk it goes to http://jbosolutions.co.uk without the www.

I am unsure from all I have been reading about SEO whether or not I should be making a choice here (mostly all of my backlinks have the www) and using this 301 redirect that I have been hearing about to redirect the non www. to www.

Should I leave well alone or should I consider doing this? What are the fors and againsts?

Thanks a lot in advance

Olly

 

Can anyone help?

 

Yes, redirect the non-www to www.

Also, in Google Webmaster Tools you can specify what version you prefer.

 

You should redirect. Google might think you have duplicate contents. and follow the advice above me.

 

use the following code in your .htaccess file

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Please REPLACE domain.com and www. newdomain.com with your actual domain name.

 

Thanks a lot for the help. I will do this right away.