Google Webmasters Update

[TravG]

I just logged into google webmasters and noticed a new panel showing what domains link to your site. Examining them I noticed its showing my own site linking to itself. My site is ultimatepokerbonus and it shows ultimatepokerbonus linking to it. Just no www in front of it.

Is this bad?

[jctroy440]

It's Google's new "chrome" look. mine shows the same. With or without the www still get you there.

[nico84]

Hi, did you make the 301 redirect?
If not, here are some good sites with 301 redirection info:

http://blogbuildingu.com/articles/ww...rect-right-way
http://fplanque.com/dev/http-ssl/www...ls-mod_rewrite


regards

[TravG]

Hi, did you make the 301 redirect?
If not, here are some good sites with 301 redirection info:

http://blogbuildingu.com/articles/ww...rect-right-way
http://fplanque.com/dev/http-ssl/www...ls-mod_rewrite


regards

I have never put a 301 redirect, but I end all my pages with a slash"/" and if you type the page without the slash it always takes you to the slash page so I guess maybe it was build in?

[CoopersPick]

thought that has been there maybe not. I have 100k+ links according to webmaster how many do you have?

[TravG]

Not near that many! ha. I take it your site is huge.

[CoopersPick]

I dont know if its that big but it's the site coopers pick in the sig. Its a sports handicapping website and I try to make sure there is a lot of content on it and a lot of pages but the seo gods have been good to me I guess.

[thebookiesoffers]

I have never put a 301 redirect, but I end all my pages with a slash"/" and if you type the page without the slash it always takes you to the slash page so I guess maybe it was build in?

you could be risking google thinking the pages are duplicate pages so its best to 301redirect them all to one

[TravG]

Im not the most savy when it comes to coding. I use Microsoft expression for my websites. Can anyone give me a clue how to do this. I have no idea how to redirect without the www.

[Chips]

If you are using an apache server, insert this into your .htaccess file:

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

Replace example.com with your domain. This will redirect non www to the www version. reverse it if you want to show only the non www version.

xxhttp://www.stepforth.com/resources/web-marketing-knowledgebase/non-www-redirect/ Explains it all and how to do the redirect if you are on a Microsoft server.

You should also specify in Google WMT what version you want. Just verify both the www and non www, then pick one and after that remove the version you do not want from webmaster tools.

[TravG]

If you are using an apache server, insert this into your .htaccess file:

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

Chips thanks - after about 5 hours with my tech support i downdloaded filezilla and can now manuplate my htaccess file. Looong day