I have a website without www now i have redirected it to http://www.example.com, now will google crawl my site, is there any thing i have 2 do with preferred domain settings?”

If you specify your preferred domain as http://www.example.com and we find a link to http://example.com, we’ll consider both links the same.

…whereas if you don’t specify WWW as preferred .. Google may see it as two separate sites, which is not good, as it would seem to google that there is duplicate content – which is bad.

I have a website without www now i have redirected it to http://www.example.com, now will google crawl my site, is there any thing i have 2 do with preferred domain settings?

Monji wrote:
“Definitely go with one or the other (never both)!”

WWW … kinda looks better to me…. I just went with that.

This is my .htaccess file – does it look ok?, I already had a 301 redirect set up, but the code is a little different to yours – anything bad in there?:
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RewriteEngine on
# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all

order deny,allow
deny from all

AuthName kudosnetwork.co
AuthUserFile /home/kudosnet/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/kudosnet/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^kudosnetwork.co$
RewriteRule ^/?$ “http\:\/\/www\.kudosnetwork\.co” [R=301,L]

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Any help much appreciated.. =]

Thanks for explaining this little gem.

I have a quick question though. I have a main domain with a number of add-on domains and my hosting provider uses cPanel. So my .htaccess file contain a number of entries, like this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^drunkenthumbs.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.drunkenthumbs.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^/?$ “http\:\/\/drunkenthumbs\.com” [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^autocentrechorley.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.autocentrechorley.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ “http\:\/\/autocentrechorley\.co\.uk” [R=301,L]

As you can see, the format is slightly different to what you have, should I change it to reflect yours, or leave it as is (just removing the extra line I don’t need)? Also, do I need the statement RewriteBase / once for each domain, or just once at the top of the file?

Thank you.

Richard.

How long before I see the boost in rankings? lol

I went from no preffered (which is default, right?) to preffered of www