www and not www

Hi all,
Regarding site http://www.bkkbooks.com and http://bkkbooks.com

Google gives a pr of 1 for the without www but zero with the www.
Infact the site is indexed more without the www. We want people and search engines to go to the www pages. We don't want the no www to be indexed by the seach engines. Or are we wrong and is it ok?

How do we solve this problem

We have a number of old pages that we deleted. Basically we changed the names of the pages. The old names are still indexed in search engines and of course if someone clicks them they get an error. How do we set up a 301 redirect for these old names. Or is there another method.

I hope I have posted this in the correct part of the forum

Look forward to your answers
Many thanks

 

Hi thanks for the quick reply.
Regards 'The first thing to do is to resubmit your site to google'

Yes we have done that. Plus made a site google map.

Still the issue with www and no www being rated higher. Do you have any other ideas please. Would rather just have the www rated. By the way will this weaken the strength as in pr of the site???

It is strange as we don't have this issue with other web sites.

All the Best

 

Hi Bruce,
Thanks for the reply.
I guess because the site is in dmoz without the www this may be the reason why.
I will use the custom error with manage IIS in the control panel to solve the bad links ie 404 error.

All the Best

 

You may want to set up a 301 redirect to avoid duplicate content issues.


I found that the best way to do it is to add following lines to your global.asax BeginRequest event:


'Check for www
If Request.Url.ToString.IndexOf("www.") < 0 Then


Dim mypage As String = Request.Url.ToString.Insert(Request.Url.ToString.IndexOf("//") + 2, "www.")


'Check if URL is like http://mysite.com/default.aspx (You want to have consistent linking / redirecting. Therefore we cut off
the "/default.aspx" bit)


If myPage.ToLower.EndsWith("/default.aspx") Then
myPage = myPage.Substring(0, myPage.IndexOf("/default.aspx"))
End If


Response.Redirect(myPage)
Response.StatusCode = 301


'The restof the global.asax should be ignored as events will be fired again after the redirect....
Exit Sub
End If
Using the 301 redirect should also transfer the pagerank from your non-www pages to the www pages.

I hope that helps,

Markus

estates24
www.estates24.com

 

Dear Markus and all
Thanks for your information.
Problem is that I don't understand the meaning of add following lines to your global.asax BeginRequest event:
Where is my global.asax?

Many thanks Markus. I checked out your site and yep tha is what I want to happen.

Hope you can explain a bit more for a dummy like me.

 

Thanks for the reply Bruce,
Well I have no choice but to change all sites looked after by me to aspx pages or move over to an apache server where one can do a few lines in a htaccess file and the problem is solved. I am now on day 3 of 8 hours per day reading up on this matter . In fact people can use this issue as a weapon by linking to your site without the www then later google penalizes you. One loses pr in google because it thinks you have two sites with the same content. Stupid google eh.

I have no problem changing all sites to aspx files. However the redirecting of all files plus the non www redirect to the www is my problem.
Is there a complete script somewhere for the global.asax somewhere in that I just have to change to the page and or domain I want. I can manage that if you know where I can copy and paste one. Do the clearly marked changes save to my test site plus to the ones I help with and of course rename the files to . aspx and copy and paste any necessary code in these files again changing any clearly marked areas.
Hope you can help or point me in the right direction as this issue needs to be solved.

 

Google also award page rank to sites that have other relevant sites linking to them. It could be that there are other sites out there with links to http://bkkbooks.com , but not http://www.bkkbooks.com.

You can use Google to find sites that have links to yours. Type 'link: http://bkkbooks.com' into Google and click Search. If you find sites that have links to http://bkkbooks.com, you might be able to get them to change their links to http://www.bkkbooks.com