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Old January 24th, 2005, 04:53 PM
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Help with redirect

I will not bore you with the details of how I ended up with this mess, but it has left me with a problem. Our website does not use the www form. Our hosting company redirects people who try to come to the www version of our homepage to the non www version. The problem is that google and others crawl the www version as if it is a page and it seems to mess with them crawling the non www version. Making any sense? Is there a different way to get people to the non www version and bots, too so that it will not index the www as a separate page?

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Our hosting company redirects people who try to come to the www version of our homepage to the non www version.


Why?

If your hosting company uses a redirect method different from a server-side permanent (301) redirect, that can cause troubles.

Ask the hosting company to use a 301 redirect or to entirely remove the redirect. In they can't, search for a better hosting company.
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Old January 24th, 2005, 06:47 PM
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My hosting company has a program in the www directory which does the redirect.

Can you do this 301 redirect on a windows server?

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