ly led to my discovery of .htaccess. It is very simple to add or remove that silly little www. The .htaccess file is located on your web server under your root home directory (the folder that has your main index.html). And although I don't recommend altering it just for the heck of it, putting the following lines of text in the file will solve the problemSince emailing every webmaster that linked to the site to ask if they could remove the 'www' was not a very good idea, research on the web led to the discovery that there just wasn't very much information about it! A few articles mentioned the problem, but the solutions were to use only the 'www' when inputing your url or don't use it. One excellent site, webworkshop.net written by Phil Craven provides extensive info about pagerank and achieving it. (yet not a solution to my problem)

It seemed as though nobody wanted anyone to know how to fix this. I questioned or rather sent questioning emails to several authors of SEO ebooks and/or educational courses. The answers I received were basically, "It does not matter to Google which way your site is accessed, it is still the same page". Well no, it isn't! Websites are indexed and ranked by search engine crawlers, spiders, or robots that use precise algorithms. These cannot see that it is the same site, they see meta-tags, html, numbers and symbols. They see two different indexes, therefor dividing pagerank inevitably in half, when it could be much, much better.

After a lot more research a solution presented itself. Noticing that sometimes after typing a url into a browser's address bar without using www, the address would immediately change to add the www. My first thought was of a re-direct, but a re-directed site will load very slowly. That eventually led to my discovery of .htaccess. It is very simple to add or remove that silly little www. The .htaccess file is located on your web server under your root home directory (the folder that has your main index.html). And although I don't recommend altering it just for the heck of it, putting the following lines of text in the file will solve the problem

webworkshop.net written by Phil Craven provides extensive info about pagerank and achieving it. (yet not a solution to my problem)

It seemed as though nobody wanted anyone to know how to fix this. I questioned or rather sent questioning emails to several authors of SEO ebooks and/or educational courses. The answers I received were basically, "It does not matter to Google which way your site is accessed, it is still the same page". Well no, it isn't! Websites are indexed and ranked by search engine crawlers, spiders, or robots that use precise algorithms. These cannot see that it is the same site, they see meta-tags, html, numbers and symbols. They see two different indexes, therefor dividing pagerank inevitably in half, when it could be much, much better.

After a lot more research a solution presented itself. Noticing that sometimes after typing a url into a browser's address bar without using www, the address would immediately change to add the www. My first thought was of a re-direct, but a re-directed site will load very slowly. That eventually led to my discovery of .htaccess. It is very simple to add or remove that silly little www. The .htaccess file is located on your web server under your root home directory (the folder that has your main index.html). And although I don't recommend altering it just for the heck of it, putting the following lines of text in the file will solve the problem

s not matter to Google which way your site is accessed, it is still the same page". Well no, it isn't! Websites are indexed and ranked by search engine crawlers, spiders, or robots that use precise algorithms. These cannot see that it is the same site, they see meta-tags, html, numbers and symbols. They see two different indexes, therefor dividing pagerank inevitably in half, when it could be much, much better.

After a lot more research a solution presented itself. Noticing that sometimes after typing a url into a browser's address bar without using www, the address would immediately change to add the www. My first thought was of a re-direct, but a re-directed site will load very slowly. That eventually led to my discovery of .htaccess. It is very simple to add or remove that silly little www. The .htaccess file is located on your web server under your root home directory (the folder that has your main index.html). And although I don't recommend altering it just for the heck of it, putting the following lines of text in the file will solve the problem

inevitably in half, when it could be much, much better.

After a lot more research a solution presented itself. Noticing that sometimes after typing a url into a browser's address bar without using www, the address would immediately change to add the www. My first thought was of a re-direct, but a re-directed site will load very slowly. That eventually led to my discovery of .htaccess. It is very simple to add or remove that silly little www. The .htaccess file is located on your web server under your root home directory (the folder that has your main index.html). And although I don't recommend altering it just for the heck of it, putting the following lines of text in the file will solve the problem

ly led to my discovery of .htaccess. It is very simple to add or remove that silly little www. The .htaccess file is located on your web server under your root home directory (the folder that has your main index.html). And although I don't recommend altering it just for the heck of it, putting the following lines of text in the file will solve the problem of multiple pageranks. *Remove the spaces for the actual http://*

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com

RewriteRule (.*) http: // www. yourdomain . com / $1 [R=301,L]

This will automatically send url's without the 'www' to the url with the 'www'. If you want the opposite effect, sending the www's to the non-www's then place this text instead.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.your domain.com

RewriteRule (.*) http: // yourdomain . com / $1 [R=301,L]

Remember of course to replace "your domain" with your actual domain name. Now what I don't understand is why it was so darn difficult to find those four simple lines?