Weird PageRank thing. WHAT'S GOING ON!?

Hey there. I am the owner of the free image hosting site, Image4You and something weird is happening with the PR of the site. If you type in the URL with a 'www.' in front of it, it shows PR as '0', but if you type it in without the 'www.' it shows a PR of '3'. What's going on?

Here are two links for you to test out on:

1. WITH 'WWW.' - Image4You

2. WITHOUT 'WWW.' - Image4You

 

How would I go about doing that?

 

And the way this is done is to add one of these to your .htaccess file:

To ensure www:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Code (markup):

To ensure non-www:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Code (markup):

 

Hmm I can't get it to work. Can you please write me an htaccess file and PM it to me? Thanks!

 

Replacing 'yourdomain' with 'image4you' and '.com' with '.org' should work, but I PM'd a custom file for you. If it still does not work, contact your host and ask them for further instructions. It may need to be set up differently depending on platform and configuration.

 

even if you don't 301, google will eventually see them as same site and assing same PR..it happened to me on some sites