Does a 301 redirect increase link

can it add value and increase PR

[dauction]

I've never bothered with 301's until this past week ..never really gave it much thought until recently and just did a

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.widets.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [widgets.com...] [R=301,L]

For starters is that the correct format for doing a 301? It does work as far as the redirect goes.

Will I gain all the www inbound links , will it help with ranking ..was this the right thing to do are should I have left it alone ..

[dauction]

I developed a new issue ... I use FP 2003 , after adding th rewrite doing the 301 I was unable to use FrontPage 2003 Publish feature ....

I worked that out thanks too chopin , steveb , bumpski and others (and of course webmasterworld) for this thread
[webmasterworld.com...]

I still would like to hear from others as far as my initial question about whether redirecting links FROM my www to non.www will actually have any impact whatsoever on SE ranking ..also but not as important is it possibble to get a pR (little green bar)boost from the "new" inbound links ..

[dauction]

Silent treatment? ..I'm sorry didnt realize I was married to webmaster world

I cant fix it if you dont tell me whats wrong ... are you mad because I dint take you out to dinner? Did I miss our anniversary?

It's that girl in the halter top I gave a second glance at?

[trillianjedi]

Hi dauction,

I don't think you offended anyone, or missed an important date ;-)

Sometimes threads here get buried quickly and people miss them. Allow me to bump it again for you.

I can answer your first question:-

I still would like to hear from others as far as my initial question about whether redirecting links FROM my www to non.www will actually have any impact whatsoever on SE ranking

If you have inbound links to your site in both forms (www and non-www) then it will effectively point them all at a single page and, yes, that can have an impact on rankings.

If all your inbound links are to www (or the other way around) then, no, it won't have any effect.

TJ

[dauction]

thanks trillianjedi .. Yes I have maybe a thousand or so links at the www that after 301 are now pointing to the non www (which it self has well over thousand links).

I know it should help ..just nervous about screwing around with something with so many links and fairly decent rankings anyways ..

just biting chewing my nails on this until we get some SE updates going

[trillianjedi]

Which pages ranked already - with "www" or without?

[dauction]

Both rank for a number of keywords .. the non though ranks more and has more quality inbounds ..that's why I 301'd from www to non

I think It will fine ..just hoping some others would post their SE /Ranking experiances after 301

[trillianjedi]

the non though ranks more and has more quality inbounds ..that's why I 301'd from www to non

Good.

experiences

I've never had a glitch with them, although I have heard from others that they've experienced a dip in rankings for a bit.

You're doing the right thing though, it's how it should be. So you have little choice - you have to do it and cross your fingers.

It'll work out fine in the end though.

TJ

[Robert Charlton]

dauction - Conceivably (brace yourself for this), since you're hitting the non-www variant with a thousand new links, there may be a time lag (aka sandbox-like delay) before the links are credited, so you may be losing rankings that you had on the www variant for a while.

You've done what you have to do... there's no way around it. You should have done it day one, and/or promoted just one variant. If you have connections with some of the linking sites, try to get some of the incorrect backlinks changed.

The best place to get comments about mod_rewrite code, by the way, is in the Apache forum, not here, which may account for some of the delay in your getting a response.