Okay, so I accidentally got a PR 5 with my site http://www.Lucidly.com (my site has only been around 2-3 months and I spent less than $200 on marketing). Anyways, "www.lucidly.com" now has a PR 5, but "lucidly.com" has a page rank of 0. How do I do a 301 redirect or whatever needs to be done so that "lucidly.com" will have the same page rank as "www.lucidly.com" after the next update? Will pay someone $10 by paypal to teach me how to do this correctly, or to do it themselves.
You do not want to do this. Instead go to Google webmaster tools and set the preferred domain, G will ignore the non www You always want the www version, be sure to send all internal and external links to the www
Can you elaborate on that "go to Google webmaster tools and set the preferred domain, G will ignore the non www" statement? Is there a link I can go for there and what will be the result of it, will both have the same page rank next update?
Exactely what I was thinking, and this is how its done. Put this code in .htaccess: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^lucidly\.com RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.lucidly.com/$1 [R=permanent,L] Now, www.lucidly.com and lucidly.com will resolve to a PR5 namely www.lucidly.com. Forget about Google webmaster tool in this case as all SE`s needs to see the above code.
Does it matter how I put that code in the .htaccess file or can I just copy/paste it, do a select all and delete everything in the .htaccess file, and then paste what you wrote above in the .htaccess file?
It depends, just do not delete anything there and add the code. That is a good way to do it too. The htaccess will only work on a windows server I think. Or if you still want to do it the Google way, just do a Google search for "preferred domain" and the link is the first result
If you want this added to your htaccess file I will complete it for free in exchange for itrader points.
Sure, but I still need it done correctly, and I do not even have a .htaccess file so you would have to create one first.