Transfer PR from http://mysite.com to http://www.mysite.com?

[Eurotrader]

On my site, both http://mysite.com and http://www.mysite.com have a PR of 5. It seems Google views these as 2 seperate pages.

I have 2 questions:

1) How can I redirect my pagerank from http://mysite.com to http://www.mysite.com?

2) Will this redirection/consolidation increase the PR of http://www.mysite.com?

Thanks!

[Eurotrader]

I heard there is a way to do this with .htaccess? How can I go about this?

Thanks

[rainborick]

Yes, you can and definitely should institute a redirect for all requests for the non-www version of your URL. The .htaccess code is as follows:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This will eventually merge the results of both the indexing of your pages and the links/PR information that Google maintains for your site.

[Pico_Train]

Nevermind, my post was not suitable for your purposes.

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