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endofgeneric is offline
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Originally Posted by Jazajay View Post
What this will do is redirect your www. and non www. versions to the www. version.
This in the search engines eyes makes the site 1 site, other wise it is classed as 2 and you will be penalized as a result.
Hey Jazajay, can you explain what you mean by "non www. versions" please? I don't know if I'm just being slow!

I'm really liking the design of the site!



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Last edited by endofgeneric; 16-01-09 at 11:39 PM.. Reason: posted in wrong thread!
  Quote Post 11 Posted 16-01-09
furto is offline
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For example, my site would be seen as

www.furtzdesigns.com

AND

furtzdesigns.com

That .htcaccess or whatever its called makes the search engines see both as one website instead of two completely diferent sites.



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  Quote Post 12 Posted 17-01-09
endofgeneric is offline
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Hey thanks Furto, I'm kind of grasping it...in what capacity would you have the 'non- www." site name though? Am I just being really stupid haha?

By the way, your signature link is linking to a site other than your own. Just so you know

....unless that's your alter ego?



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  Quote Post 13 Posted 17-01-09
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Yeah Furto pretty much has hit it on the head, TBH.
Basically go to the address bar of your site, if you have not loaded the code up.
Delete the www. section and press enter and you see the same page, now the problem with this, even though it is stupid, is the url is now different, this version doesn't have the www. in, but the content is the same.

Now any equity the search engines give you if they reference the non www. could mean it could be halved this thus effects your rankings as the power you have to rank those pages (equity) is not a strong as it could be.

Now the solution is a 301 redirect which means that the contents of this url now reside at the new www. address. The search engines then pass the equity on to the www. version.
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in what capacity would you have the 'non- www." site name though?
I may be being stupid but you get it when you buy the www. version.

If instead you mean when would you link to the non www. version, well I don't link to the www. version TBH, but it's not nesercarily you who has to.

I'm a competitor, who knows how to rank pages, I look at yours and I see their is no redirect in place I then get 1 link to the non www. version and you then become penalized for duplicate content as you have the same content under two urls, and any equity you get from that link is again not maximized, you then lose a place in the SERPs and I move up, with out doing a thing.

To me it's more of a security thing TBH as well as crossing the T's and dotting all the I's.

Hope that has explained it well enough, let me know if it hasn't. :-)
Jaz



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Last edited by Jazajay; 17-01-09 at 05:26 PM.. Reason: Spelling
  Quote Post 14 Posted 17-01-09
furto is offline
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Lol thanks endofgeneric, thats what I get for stealing someone's signature.



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  Quote Post 15 Posted 17-01-09
endofgeneric is offline
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Woah! I really need to learn a thing or two about SEO. I get it now thanks for being patient with me!



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  Quote Post 16 Posted 17-01-09
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No worries endofgeneric
Glad I could help :-)

Jaz



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  Quote Post 17 Posted 17-01-09
Mikey is offline
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A few minor changes, and now live.


  Quote Post 18 Posted 18-01-09
Onartis is offline
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Hay buddy a few things ~
Then give hometext a rule of
#hometext{white-space: pre}

As that will reduce the br tag, change the h2 tags which are heading tags to the correct strong tag which makes it semantically correct.
What does that exactly do? Never seen a white-space rule before


And why is your portfolio switching between two layouts? Sometimes I see an orange one and sometimes I see a grey/blue one.



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  Quote Post 19 Posted 18-01-09
Mikey is offline
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Could be because you still have the old one in your cache.


  Quote Post 20 Posted 18-01-09
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