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Htaccess Redirect For Better Pagerank & Other Analytics

Updated On 05/04/2017
Author : Blogjunta
Topic : HTACCESS
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.htaccess (hypertext access) redirect is very important to route all the traffic to one form of URL of their blog. It is best to use .htaccess redirect both in the case of humans and bots, as the bots and humans will be handling the URL for various purposes like linkback in case of humans or crawling in case of bots of Google and Microsoft. .htaccess redirect helps in maintaining a single format for your blog or website.

The Different forms of URL can hinder the Pagerank and other analytics, as they would take your blog or website in two different forms and rate it differently. The two most commonly seen formats are with WWW and without WWW , for example ;

http://www.domain.com

http://domain.com

The two formats will be differently handled and hence the linkbacks for humans and the URL for Google bots and Microsoft bots will not appear same. The solution for the above problem is to use .htaccess redirect.

Redirection from with www to without www can be achieved by creating a .htaccess file in your control panel root directory, this will usually be in the public_html in cpanel file manager and similarly in other Control panels like Plesk.

To redirect the with www URL to without www URL, edit the .htaccess file and insert the code given below and save:

## Redirect www.example.com to example.com.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

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14 Comments
- Deepanshu
  yeah u r right….this duplicate url issu can create problems with google…..learnt abt this today only at some forum…well we can manage redirects (301) from server side so that it redirects to our preferred choice of domain..i also saw an option in google webmaster tools where we can specify which url google shud consider…..i m not sure which i m gonna do out of these 3 until i read more and get expert opinions 😛
  08/04/2011 at 3:18 AM
- Sharma
  I did same you say in tips. I use my domain with www and permanet redirect the non-www to www domain. Thanks to share it. I really enjoy post.
  16/02/2011 at 9:50 PM
- Jasmine
  Good tips. I always prefer to have “www” on my domain. I think it looks more cute. 🙂
  10/02/2011 at 8:18 AM
- Usman
  I think this redirect is hardly going to effect pagerank because google is highly selective in indexing new urls
  10/02/2011 at 1:13 AM
- Umer
  Thanks for the useful seo tips
  10/02/2011 at 1:11 AM
- blogjunta
  @prabhakaran & @raghunath….Please try…
  09/02/2011 at 7:48 PM
- Raghunath Pillai
  Interesting read! Will do this for my site!
  09/02/2011 at 6:46 PM
- prabhakaran
  Useful. Will give a try!. Thanks
  09/02/2011 at 5:56 PM
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