Permanent 301 redirect

[in2d]

:| I ran a check on my site with website grader (had never heard of it before today ... but looks like a nifty little tool).

It is telling me this:
"Search engines may think www .mysite.co.uk and mysite.co.uk are two different sites.You should set up a permanent redirect (technically called a "301 redirect") between these sites. Once you do that, you will get full search engine credit for your work on these sites.

For example, www .mysite.co.uk seems to have 101 inbound links whereas mysite.co.uk has 107 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 have any experience of this? I'm struggling to understand exactly what I am supposed to be doing.

Any suggestions much appreciated

 

[PI Guy]

i did it on the advice given on this thread http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=61154

 

[in2d]

i did it on the advice given on this thread http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=61154

Thanks for the link - though it looks technical and a bit scary tbh. I'll try sitting down again later and look at it with a clear mind. I can't afford to screw anything up - I've no technical experience and am completely standalone with my site [scared face] lol

Thanks again for your reply

 

[greenwood-IT]

Hiya,

I just checked the other thread and didn't see a quick answer for IIS/ASP, so here's my logic. If your using Apache, then the other thread covers that.

If it's IIS, then include this section in the top of one of your global include files as you'll need this on every page (you never know which page the visitor will enter your site via).

--8<-----------------------------------------------------------------
'### Correct the website URL from anything 'abnormal' ###
ThisWebsite = "www,greenwood-it,co,uk"
Requested = lcase(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME"))
If Requested <> lcase(ThisWebsite) then
URL = "h t t p ://" & ThisWebsite
ScriptName = mid(Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME"), 2)
QueryString = Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING")
If ScriptName <> "" then URL = URL & "/" & ScriptName
If QueryString <> "" then URL = URL & "?" & QueryString
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.Addheader "Location", URL
Response.End
End if
--8<----------------------------------------------------------------

You'll obviosuly have to replace the 'ThisWebsite' variable with your full URL. Also line 5 will need the spaces removed from 'h t t p :' in order to make it work! (I'm going to have to pay to join this forum just so that i can include URLs ).

This script does have a limitation in that it will redirect HTTPS/SSL connections to the insecure equivalent page, but I'll let you work that out

Chat soon.

 

[LeilerDee]

I just want to add a little something here - don't be intimidated! It's not as hard as it looks

 

[colin bruce]

assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/16/Getting%20More%20Traffic%20from%20Search_%20Advanced%20SEO%20for%20Developers%20Presentation.ppt#327,48,Thank you!

Have a look at slides #28 onwards which may be of use in this case.

 

[in2d]

Thanks everyone for the tips. I'm going to tackle it this afternoon and will report back!