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Posted 12/25/2007 5:02:51 PM
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I recently read this report from websitegrader.com about my website, www.vintagetextile.com

"Permanent Redirect Not Found
Search engines often regard www.vintagetextile.com and vintagetextile.com as two different websites unless you take specific measures to signal to them that they are the same site. The best way to handle this situation is to setup a permanent redirect (or a "301" redirect) from one of these sites to the other. This way, any links that are pointing to the secondary site benefit the primary site, from an SEO perspective.

We could not detect a permanent redirect for this site, so it may be experiencing the negative effects of link fragmentation (some of the inbound links may point to www.vintagetextile.com and others to vintagetextile.com) For example, www.vintagetextile.com seems to have 4,926 inbound links whereas vintagetextile.com has 5,353 inbound links. By correctly configuring a permanent 301 redirect, the search rankings might improve as all inbound links are correctly counted for the website."

Does anyone know how to to do this permaent redirect correctly or does anyone have a web reference, e.g., forum, on how to do this?

Thanks, CMA
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Posted 1/5/2008 1:40:26 AM
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Hi,

This is entirely a search engine problem.  This web page covers the problem and solution appropriately

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/06/14/examplecom-vs-wwwexamplecom-trouble/

If you are not aware of htaccess files they are a simple text file named (full name)  .htaccess (dot htaccess). Warning, no blank lines at the top of the file.

Louise

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