Comments on: 301 Redirects and www/non-www Canonical Problems

By: Laxmi

Laxmi — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:26:03 +0000

I also use 301 redirection code, but i not use $sign at last of second line. Can you tell me why we use $ sign at last. Can it will compulsory?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^seo-consultant-services\.co.uk$
RewriteRule (.*) http://seo-consultant-services.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:02:43 +0000

Hi, I set up a website a while back with the company name as the domain name which doesn’t really reflect what I do. I have since purchased 2 more domain names with better keywords in them, can I just 301 these domain names to my existing website without having to actually create any content in them?

By: Denis

Denis — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:51:31 +0000

Great post. I have an issue where I upload the htaccess file and it works perfectly, however I have a wordpress blog and it does not allow me to log in . I have to delete the htaccess file every time I want to add a post.

Can you help and let me know what I need to do. Thanks

By: carl

carl — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:49:29 +0000

Can you help with the following : As people use the WordPress internal search engine on our site (soundpimp.com), pages are created that occasionally start to outperform – in the Google search results – our well planned website structure of pages. This is obviously not good, however it CAN be good to have these results also as they can help catch customers to our site. But we want such customer to be presented the standard entry that we have planned for them.

How to 301 redirect all such search pages to e.g. the mysitename.com

Thanks
Carl

By: Jonas Jørgensen

Jonas Jørgensen — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:55:12 +0000

HI , thanks for the great explanation.

The file is very usefull.

Though, I have a minor problem.

When I interst both a www redirect and a few 301 page redirects, the server returne a 500 not working bla lba issues bla bla

My code:

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

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all

order deny,allow
deny from all

# redirect non-www urls to www
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bredbaandmobilt.dk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.bredbaandmobilt.dk/$1 [L,R=301]

Rewrite 301 /hablahabla/ld.html http://www.hablulbaexampel.dk/example.html

ErrorDocument 404 /sideoversigt_mobil_bredbaand.htm

Can u se whats seems to be wrong?

Without the Rewrite 301 it works fine.

By: kumar

kumar — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:20:38 +0000

i am using a very simple website using HTML on a windows shared hosting. how can i redirect non-www to www address. in root directory i have index.html.

please help me.

By: Ruri

Ruri — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:23:14 +0000

I just wondering I follow your instruction, however, why the only effect is in the homepage. let say I want to move ‘mydomain.com/category/filename.htm’ it should move to ‘www.mydomain.com/category/filename.htm’ but it always move to ‘mydomain.com’

By: Moonlight

Moonlight — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:13:12 +0000

To use the default setting ( non-www and www ) both, in the free hosting try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
rewritecond %{http_host} ^JUSTYOURDMAINNAME\\.net [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.YORDOMAIN.net/$1 [L,R=301]

JUSTYOURDMAINNAME = without .com, .net, etc…. JUST NAME.
YORDOMAIN = full domain name.
I try that with my free hosting and its working great, sorry for my broken english.

By: Pao

Pao — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:18:32 +0000

Hi,

My client wants me to SEO his site. He provide me the URL http://www.example.com and when I check on it, it is redirecting to http://example.com/ which clearly uses 301 redirects. I check on the backlinks, the
http://www.example.com : 26 backlinks
http://example.com : 0 backlinks

but the SERP for all keywords shows that it rank for non-www version and no result/zero pages for www version. I told my client that I will optimize his site using the non-www version since the site has been indexed with the non-www and the keywords have rank with the non-www.. But he is confused of optimizing the site in the non-www version because of the backlink results. And even ask why the site keywords rank with the non-www if it has zero backlinks. Maybe I wasnt able to explain him approproately..

Please correct me if I am wrong.. Am I correct of optimizing the site with the non-www, right? And what is the appropriate way to explain this to clients.

Additionally, why would google rank the keywords if it has zero backlinks? 10 of his keywords 6 of it shows in page 2, 3 and 4.

By: Geoff Marshall

Geoff Marshall — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:51:19 +0000

I’m confused by all this talk of doing 301 redirects using a .htaccess file, when I seem to be able to do the same thing from the Control Panel of my Domain Registrar’s site. What is the difference between doing it in these two radically different ways?