Force www vs non-www to avoid duplicate content |
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| Written by Best Host Ratings |
| Monday, 18 May 2009 00:00 |
Recently, it has been talked a lot about Google and duplicate content as well as Google Canonical problems.That is, when you have your site accessible both under your_domain.com and www.your_domain.com. To avoid such problems you can use the following lines in your .htaccess file to force only the www version of your web site:
RewriteEngine on Please, note that the .htaccess should be located in the web site main folder. This will redirect all requests to the non-www version of your site to the www version using 301 Permanent redirect which will make the search engines to index your site only using the www.your_domain.com URL. In this way you will avoid a duplicate content penalty. |
| Last Updated on Thursday, 04 June 2009 13:21 |
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