Deverill Posted October 17, 2003 Posted October 17, 2003 Sorry for the confusing title but I couldn't figure how to word it. I go to one of my websites with the google bar enabled and see that if I go to mysite.com I get a PR of 3. If I go to www.mysite.com I get a PR of 4. Obviously Google is seeing them as two different entities. Some of those links are from my other sites so I can of course change them to include the www. What about the links that exist in the world that are not mine to control? Is there anything I can do to redirect or shuffle them to WWW so Google counts them together? I doubt it but I'm hoping there's a way. Thanks! Quote
DarqFlare Posted October 17, 2003 Posted October 17, 2003 Good question. Perhaps make a redirect in CPanel that anything going to mysite.com goes to www.mysite.com? Will that work? Quote
SEO Posted October 18, 2003 Posted October 18, 2003 I have addressed this very important issue in other threads. Often people are not consistent on the 'exact' URL when referencing a page. Google and the others use the actual URL as the 'key' to their large indexes (i.e. databases). That is why different URLs give different PageRanks even though it is the same page. The solution: redirect 301: a permanent redirect that will 'pass' PageRank (i.e. backlinks) to the 'correct' URL. Good luck Quote
Deverill Posted October 18, 2003 Author Posted October 18, 2003 Scott, You're the man! Thanks yet again! Quote
Deverill Posted October 18, 2003 Author Posted October 18, 2003 Hmmm. Tell me if I did this wrong: I put a line in .htacess that says: Redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.mysite.org/index.htm The problem is that if I go to mysite.org/index.htm the browser redirects to www.mysite.org/index.htm and then it sees it should redirect to ... forever. Without creating a new home page is there any way to "combine" mysite.org and www.mysite.org? Did I do something wrong or is that just how it resolves things? Quote
SEO Posted October 19, 2003 Posted October 19, 2003 Redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.mysite.org/index.htm This would create an infinete loop, you are diredting the same url to the same url. index.htm = index.htm Hmmm... you might have the same loop with mysite.com vs. www.mysite.com too [sorry was not looking at the specifics ]. Quote
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