301 Redirects with Yahoo Hosting

[rwebconsulting]

I have my website www.rwebconsulting.com hosted by Yahoo.

For SEO purposes I would like to redirect all urls not containing www.

Examples:
A. [rwebconsulting.com...] to [rwebconsulting.com...]
B. [rwebconsulting.com...] to [rwebconsulting.com...]

Yahoo Customer Support told me they dont support 301 permanent redirects but I could do a temporary 300 redirect (with PHP) by manipulating the HTTP headers
with the header() function. But I have read that Search Engines do not like 300 redirects because of unethical uses of it.

What should I do?
Keep my site as-is (and negatively hurt by SEO rankings)?
Use 300 redirects?
Switch hosting companies?

Thanks!
Rob W.

[cabowabo]

Rob,

I don't use Yahoo hosting, but I had heard that they started to support the "non-www" issue - which will greatly help you. If you don't need the technology from a Yahoo store, I would bail.

Call back in and speak to someone who sounds like they know what the are talking about.

[jdMorgan]

A "300 redirect" is not relevant here. Its full name is 300-Multiple Choices, and it's used with content-negotiation when the server can't decide (from the information provided by the client) which of several possible representations the client would prefer.

For example, the server might respond with the 300 code and a list of URLs, each pointing to the same page in a different language.

That doesn't apply here.

Also, tech support failed to mention that if you can do 300-Multiple Choices redirect using PHP to write the response headers, then you should also be able to do a 301-Moved Permanently redirect as well.

Jim