301 redirect for www and the trailing slash SEO tip

Last Updated on Monday, 17 May 2010 18:58 Written by Joe Rinehart, SEO Thursday, 16 July 2009 08:56

Search Engines see yoursite.com and www.yoursite.com as two different site and to further confuse the issue if you are using the trailing / it can look to the engines that you have 4 different sites with the combination if backlinks pointing to the various options. The has the effect of dilluting the value of the links to your site.

The solution is to use an .htaccess file with this code:

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}^yoursite\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.JoeRinehart.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.JoeRinehart.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

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