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example.com has a pr4, but www.example.com has pr6, how does it come this way? what is the difference?
thanks for your input
alexandra
[edited by: ciml at 2:05 pm (utc) on Feb. 16, 2004]
[edit reason] Examplified URL. [/edit]
www.example.co.uk has a PR of 6, and www.example.com has a PR of 5. Am I best off doing the 301 on the .htaccess file for the site, so that Google is told to only goto one address?
Yes. IMHO you should *always* configure a site so it has exactly one canonical name and all the other names for it produce a 301 redirect to that name.
.co.uk and .com
Is there an easier way to join them, like set an alias for the .com to point to .co.uk or just do the following
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [example.co.uk...] [R=permanent]
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What if someone requests example.com?
404?
How to prevent?
Use a 301 redirect
One of our site's rankings had dropped considerably just before GG said this so as directed, I put a redirect in one of our sites because all pages (except the home) were indexed without the www but we had plenty of new links pointing at the www.
The Result: google removed all our pages except the home page and our google traffic (&sales) for this site was reduced considerably.
so yeah, cheers for the tip GoogleGuy.
It is clear that this is not a problem that they are concerned about despite its repercussions for small businesses and self employed people like myself. Why can't Google open up a proper problems process that people could use in the event of situations like this? I know, I know ... they would probably say that they would be snowed under with email but they could put a condition on this. If any site used this channel without justification they would receive a lifetime ban, or be beheaded in the town square or something. The submission could be made through a form on the Google site, which clearly outlined the repercussions of making spurious complaints.
Incidentally, because of what Google is doing to me I am now receiving 99% of my traffic from the new Yahoo where I have top five placings for all my main KWs. What I am finding is that for some strange reason this traffic , although of reduced volume, appears to be more highly targeted and I am doing really well without Google. (I am a consultant in an industrial/technical field.) Is it possible that my kind of visitors, who are also technical people, are not using Google as much as they did in the past? It could be that because of its popularity some serious surfers now see Google as being too "mass market" or too "common". I am in the UK but I spoke on the phone to an associate in the USA yesterday and when I mentioned this he said that he was seeing exactly the same thing. Anyone else seeing this?
One more question to the IIS header only being www:
What if someone requests example.com?
404?
Unknown Host
The server can not locate the target host. Please check the URL and try again.
Not pretty but no pr schizophrenia, no dup content fears, no bad links, no twin fighting [webmasterworld.com]
Those who can type example.org can type www.example.org
things will be different if you enable default website
Why can't Google open up a proper problems process that people could use in the event of situations like this?
Billionaires, (now officially so), don't have to worry about the petty concerns of the little people, that's why.
(Imho, purely personal view of capitalism, etc, etc.)
Cheers
Roel
When I do a web search on www.google.com, for some pages, they show up as having a category and description in the Google Directory but when I visit
[directory.google.com...]
via the Category link, there is no sign of those pages in the actual directory.
Is there a newer version somewhere besides here?
[directory.google.com...]
PS: when I search from the main directory page, the site shows up as being in the results but again, clicking on the Category link, it is not in the actual category.
