I was checking my backlinks and I noticed that my http://insertsitehere.com had some PR6 backlinks..My http://www.insertsitehere.com has totally different backlinks. What gives ? is there a major difference between www and non www?
The 2 are see by search engines as differents sites, which is bad. I suggest you to set a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file, redirecting the one without www to the one with www (or the opposite), but choose one and stick with it
yes there is.....they also end up with different pagerank....use your .htaccess file and redirect the non www version to the www version RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^seo-rant\.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.seo-rant.com/$1 [L,R=301] of course you replace seo-rant.com with your domain name
what if i have more than one domain on the same server? how do i do the same for the extra domains which are organized in their own folder, do i put it in each separate folder?? RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^defaultdomain.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.defaultdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301] works but RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain2.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain2.com/$1 [L,R=301] doesnt i get an error along the lines of: cannot find xxx..domain2.com/domain2 and the url is redirected to xxx.domain2.com/domain2 when i see this error (i had to change www to xxx cuz i'm new here so it wont let me post live urls