301 Redirect Godaddy?

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Yeah, So if i wouldn't of been so stupid, and signed up with the microsoft based hosting, rather than linux, I could of edited the Httaccess but i didn't, and now Can't figure out how to get my non www. To redirect to my www, Any help?
 


It sounds like you are using GoDaddy for web hosting. Are they also your domain registrar? If so, you can edit your domain in the GoDaddy control panel to setup the 301 redirect. It's very simple to do. Let us know if you run into any problems. Thanks.
 
easy. Go to your domain control panel and 301 it. You can then mask it if you'd like.
 
Log into your godaddy account > click domain manager on the left hand side > click on the domain you wish to 301 > now you are in the control panel for the domain > in the middle of the screen below your nameserver settings you'll see "forwarding" > Click on forwarding, or domain is not forwarded > Click enable forwarding > click 301 on the right hand side > type in the forwarded domain > you can mask the domain by clicking the mask tab > mask the domain with whatever you want the URL to ready when someone visits the forwarded domain > press okay and save.

All done.
 
Right well i've done that, but its still not working, but it does say it could take a couple of minutes..

Unless i've missunderstood, and that won't redirect the non www?

Thank you.
 
but what i mean is, for SEO purposes, one should link to the other, otherwise your traffic is split... but i don't know how
 
Telboy said:
but what i mean is, for SEO purposes, one should link to the other, otherwise your traffic is split... but i don't know how
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They are the same thing.

- 1 URL

- same site

- same traffic

You can't link a site to itself.
 
jlknauff said:
My post was pretty self explanatory.
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Okay, I'll try elaborating then.

1) I only see a difference when it comes to link building and inbound links. Yes, you want to pick one or the other (http://www.domain.com or http://domain.com) and run with it.

2) I have ran tests on splitting the links up but I can't see much of a difference (personally), I only try to stay consistent because that is what I have read.

3) Since looking into this matter further I have found a couple ways to redirect http://www.domain.com to http://domain.com although I haven't done it in the past.

Here are the options:

A) add a CNAME record with the non-www version pointing to the www version (or vice versa).

B) Redirect from non-www to www use this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
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C) redirect from www. to non www.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
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I am now really interested to see who here has used these methods and who hasn't?

I haven't done this at all in the past and it's never seem to hurt me. Does it really help?
 
Thats EXACTLY it :D Thank you, basically i paid several people to leave backlinks to my site, and for some reason my non www got indexed,

Right i tried adding a cname,

I went
Domain- Dns - Add new CNAMES (Aliases) - in the host section i put the url, without the www. and http:// for the points to, i put the www, Did i do it right?

Edit: i guess not, as now my site is listed under "Oops! This link appears broken."
 
Telboy said:
Windows :/
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It's trickier with windows. Call you host and have them do it. All you have to do is open a ticket and inform them of what you need done. It only takes about a couple minutes for them to do it for you.
 
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