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11-04-2011, 10:44 AM

creativejen

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Thanks for the feedback, I worked on some updates last night, added all the titles etc. I'm not really an seo person, but by full urls instead of relative, you mean instead of <a href="faq.php"> it should be <a href="http://www.....com/faq.php"> ?

11-04-2011, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by creativejen

Correct,

This will help search engines figure out whether you want your website to be:

Right now both sites work, which means you have duplicate content of each page at the www and non-www version of your site. This affects your website rankings in the search engines because different websites may link to you differently. You should pick either www or non-www and link to your site in a consistent manner. Then you should 301 redirect the domain you are not using to the one you are using.

You can accomplish the 301 redirect with an .htaccess snippet.

This code redirects http://www.worldofcreatives.com/ to http://worldofcreatives.com/

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

This code redirects http://worldofcreatives.com/ to http://www.worldofcreatives.com/

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^worldofcreatives.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.worldofcreatives.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

I know the www to non-www one works, because that's what I use

.

This is important because right now you could potentially have DOUBLE pages in search engines:

By using FULL URLs it eliminates the ambiguity. Clicking both those links above you'll see that all the links change relative to the website. Relative links wouldn't be as much of a problem if you 301 redirected one of the two domains. However, I would still recommend using full URLs regardless.

You can type: "site:worldofcreatives.com" to check the pages search engines have indexed. On Google, if you type "site:worldofcreatives.com" it'll usually ask you to register to Google Webmaster Tools. Definitely sign up to monitor ALL your websites. You can even tell Google if you want to use the non-www or www version of your website once signed up to Webmaster Tools.

Good luck. If you have questions, feel free to ask

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