I may have major Troubles

[TravG]

So the whole www and non www pages got me thinkin so I did a search on google site:http://ultimatepokerbonus.com to see if both versions were indexed.

Good news is that i didnt see any pages without the www but I found many pages with an https: beginning. I have never had a certificate for this site so I dont see how these pages came to be. Even the homepage comes up with an https: and a http: prefix.

I cant think this is good - thoughts? How do I correct it?

[Chips]

You might want to check with your hosting service and/or the registrar of your domain. I took a look at the certificate:

ultimatepokerbonus.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is only valid for *.sites.myregisteredsite.com

(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

Something is screwy for sure.

[jctroy440]

www.myurl.com and

myurl.com are the same

I went through this and don't worry. Google kept telling me that I had links to bestcasinoonlinenow.com and when I researched it, it was the same url as a www.bestcasinoonlinenow.com.

If someone structured a sentence to say
"Go to the best casino online. Now that you have"

My URL would likely come up.

I constantly have analytical programs tell me to "redirect" my non www traffic to my www. domain. It is a glitch. i have only one web site so i can't re-direct something that isn't there.

I hope this helped

[TravG]

I did get this to work on my one site ultimatepokerbonus using an htaccess file. Now if someone types in the address without the www it takes them to the www page. A good thing I hope. Put the same exact file on my other site and it returns a 500 error code?? Not sure what the deal is, my hosting company tech support is crap! Swtiching to hostgator I think??

As far ar the https thing, tech support tells me its because the server has a certificate and I have to tell google to unindex the pages that have the https prefix - yea right - like thats gonna happen.

[jctroy440]

www.mynewcasino.com

mynewcasino.com

both go to the same URL unless you have a separate landing page like the porno guys have

you don't need a redirect

[davemerry]

Hi there,

From what I know, search engines regard http:// and http://www. versions of your site as totally separate and different pages, despite only actually displaying one in the search engines for a given search term if they contain the same content. This is not really a major issue unless people start linking to your site using only the http:// extension rather than http://www. as the credibility these links give you is separated as well, rather than consolidated to one URL.

I would certainly recommend implementing this redirect on your sites as best practice and to eliminate any future risks.

Implementing a non www. to a www. should be simple using your .htaccess as you suggested. Would you mind posting the URL that your having trouble doing this with? I may be able to help with a closer look.

In regards to the https:// issue, perhaps this thread will help:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/...e4698c88&hl=en

Let me know if not and I may be able to dig something up.

As far as Hostgator go, I would never recommend them cancelled my account with them around 6 months ago and they are still invoicing me for a dedicated server every month despite numerous phone calls!

Cheers,
Dave

[TravG]

Hi Dave,

This this what my htaccess file looks like. The exact same file is on my other site and it works perfectly.

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

My tech support team renamed the file overnight so the error wouldnt occur so now I dont even have a n htaccess file until i re-uplaod it. My hosting company doesnt use Cpanel (web.com) and I'm just at wits end talking with them.

Thanks for any help.

[davemerry]

Hi Travis,

The following works for me on my sites, just (obviously) make sure you replace domain.com with the site you want it to work for.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Let me know if this doesn't work, happy to help.

Cheers,
Dave

[TravG]

Yea, it does the same thing. As soon as I upload it it gives a 500 error when you navigate to another page. I hate to give up but..... I swear it has to do with something on the server side but I cant get tech support to do anything.

[davemerry]

Hmmm... would you mind PM'ing me the URL and entire .htaccess file that you are using? There should be no reason why this wouldn't work (to my knowledge) unless it conflicts with something else in the .htaccess.

Cheers,
Dave

[Chips]

www.mynewcasino.com

mynewcasino.com

both go to the same URL unless you have a separate landing page like the porno guys have

you don't need a redirect

But, you are splitting your page rank between the www and non-www versions. Also, you may have domain.com/index.html, or .htm, or .php each version of the page is splitting the total page rank.

You do need to have the 301 redirect to cure this. Not just the non-www to www, but any occurrence of the above mentioned index pages to 301 to your bare domain name.

So, yes you do need a redirect.

[RHayes]

Your correct and it should be addressed so Google knows which site is the one you want Google to index.

You can find out more on Googles Youtube Channel, Matt clearly explains this issue and why a webmaster should address it.

Hi there,

From what I know, search engines regard http:// and http://www. versions of your site as totally separate and different pages, despite only actually displaying one in the search engines for a given search term if they contain the same content. This is not really a major issue unless people start linking to your site using only the http:// extension rather than http://www. as the credibility these links give you is separated as well, rather than consolidated to one URL.

I would certainly recommend implementing this redirect on your sites as best practice and to eliminate any future risks.

Implementing a non www. to a www. should be simple using your .htaccess as you suggested. Would you mind posting the URL that your having trouble doing this with? I may be able to help with a closer look.

In regards to the https:// issue, perhaps this thread will help:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/...e4698c88&hl=en

Let me know if not and I may be able to dig something up.

As far as Hostgator go, I would never recommend them cancelled my account with them around 6 months ago and they are still invoicing me for a dedicated server every month despite numerous phone calls!

Cheers,
Dave