Page Rank With or Without www and How to Redirect it April 12
Have you notice the different when you visit www.askax.net and askax.net (without www)? Answer: it give you different page rank, the www one has PR 0 and non ww has PR 1.
When search engine index the website it takes the url as is, so when their bot crawl your page they got this 2 different version, so it’s the matter of consistency, when I promote my blog/website I prefer non www one, as I am so lazy to type in www on this day.
There is a way that you can redirect you non www to www and vice versa. By using .htaccess you can get a 301 redirect to your prefered one, you need to make text file called .htaccess and add the following script (this one redirect to www version);
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^askax.net
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.askax.net [R=301,L]
then upload it into your home directory
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Stumble it!
Frank Apr 13
After recently reading about this over at Nate Whitehill’s I have now made sure that I have a redirect on to the one address. I’ll be interested to see if it has a noticeable effect on PR. Thanks for the info.
Andika Kusuma Apr 13
No worries, well it actually eliminate the lower page rank and keep the high one. usually it will not increase your page rank
kanca Sep 19
How to write that script to .htaccess. Does .htacccess can edit using notepade? thx b4
Andika Kusuma Sep 20
yes, you can open the .htaccess file using notepad and edit it.
Axcel Feb 20
Good tip, I haven’t heard this before. I never even thought of using a 301 on for this. Thanks!
Legitimate Home Business Opportunities Dec 1
really we can do it?