Subdomain redirect

Redirect to www

[PeteM]

My web logs show people accessing my site without the www subdomain. If I use .htaccess to redirect mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com will it be reflected in my stats? Is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks, Pete

[jdMorgan]

Adding the redirect will result in two requests being shown in your stats: The initial one to example.com, which your server will respond to with a 301 redirect, and a resulting second request to the correct domain.

Take the long-term view and install the redirect; This will consolidate your PageRank, link-popularity, and search engine listings, and help to prevent people from linking to the 'wrong' domain in the future. This is one of the first things to do when you create a new site, and should be done before putting the site on-line.

Jim

[PeteM]

Cheers Jim - job done.

Pete