301 redirect

[Acuity]

Hey u lot. Just ran my domain name through a tool that i got linked to and it tells me that http://www-acuitydesigns-net has 365 inbound link and http://acuitydesigns-net has 345 and that if i implement a 301 redirect google will combine the two figures so i will have the 700+ links pointing to my one www-acuitydesigns.net thus increase my pagerank etc/ searcj ranking as googl currently think they are two seperate sites???


any advice on how to implement a 301 redirect etc...

[aletsix]

Hi There, I am not quite sure about the inbound links but I would suggest you use other tools to double chack. Sign in to google webmaster tool at: Google Webmaster Central to make sure. As per the 301 redirect just create a .htaccess.txt file in your root folder and type in the following text to redirect the whole site:

redirect 301 / newdomainname.com

or if you want to redirect different single pages:

redirect 301 /olddir/page1.html newdomainname.com

When finished, save and remove the ".txt" extension from the file name and upload the file to the server. Make sure you check the redirect is search engine friendly using:

Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker

[Harry]

Sans www. - A Domain Redirect :: CSS Wizardry - Freelance Front-end Development, UX, Web Standards, Accessibility, Usability, and Semantics Advocate Harry Roberts - West Yorkshire (UK)

There you go.

[Acuity]

Sans www. - A Domain Redirect :: CSS Wizardry - Freelance Front-end Development, UX, Web Standards, Accessibility, Usability, and Semantics Advocate Harry Roberts - West Yorkshire (UK)

There you go.

i created what you had mate, just wondering if the change is instant, i checked it or your site and saw it all work, with mine, if i type in www.... i still go to www.... rather than the abbreviated acuitydesigns.net

the contents of my .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.acuitydesigns\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://acuitydesigns.net/$1 [R=301,L]

[Harry]

Hmm, strange. I'm not sure why it's not working. I'll take another peek at my .htaccess when I get chance.

[Acuity]

cheers...

shouldn't you be at work? lol

[Harry]

I am :)

[Acuity]

niiiicccee

[Rexibit]

Here is an article you might find useful. Giving search engine spiders direction - 301 redirect

[tommylogic]

Ohhh but you know I have a tutorial already {thanks for pointing people my direction, btw.... fockers}

How to Redirect a Web Page | 301 redirect