www domain and non-www domain

[liveland]

I have heard that I should redirect my non-www domain to my www domain, to prevent any penalties on google.

Please can any one advise on how I go about doing this? My site is an .net asp based site hosted on the windows hosting starter package.

Thanks

[Matt123]

Yes, what you have heard is true. You should 301 redirect your non-www domain to your www domain. I guess this is the only solution to do this.

The 301 redirect guides and informs Search Engine for resolving a domain name to the target location. Non-implementation of this 301 Redirect may lead to undesired and negative result for the website.

[liveland]

Is this something I do through my Plesk Control Panel? Can you advise how I actually do this 301 redirect of the domain?
Thanks

[Harry]

Originally Posted by liveland

I have heard that I should redirect my non-www domain to my www domain, to prevent any penalties on google.

No..its not true, there wont be any penalties from Google. Also its not necessary to redirect all non-www domains for www-domains but its always recommended to redirect such domains using 301 redirect which is very SE friendly.

Originally Posted by liveland

Is this something I do through my Plesk Control Panel? Can you advise how I actually do this 301 redirect of the domain?
Thanks

Yes, you can set redirect through your Plesk control.
You can also refer following blog post about 301 directed at : 301 Redirect in ASP | Web Hosting UK | Linux Windows PHP MySQL Hosting Tutorials

[liveland]

I cannot find anywhere in plesk to set this redirect up!
I've read the blog but it is about redirecting a page rather than a domain so doesn't really help.
Thanks

[Matt123]

Active Server Pages (ASP)

Canonical Hostname Redirect (non-www to www):
You might have an ASP script that is executed before beginning the page output for each page. Insert this code into that ASP script.

<%
If InStr(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME"),"www" ) = 0 Then
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location","http://www."
& Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST")
& Request.ServerVariables("REQUEST_URI")
Response.End
End if
%>

Hope that helps

[hostmakers]

Your web host should be able to take care of this for you.

[MattBarthorpe]

Thats correct, you should get in touch with your web host. Ask them to help you with this issue.

[Dan]

If htaccess is enabled, you can use the following to rewrite the domain from http://blah.com to http://www.blah.com on visit. I'm not sure regarding .htaccess on Windows so I thought I'd post that anyway

Redirect http:// to http://www using .htaccess

[mahalakshmi.t]

Originally Posted by Matt123

Active Server Pages (ASP)

Canonical Hostname Redirect (non-www to www):
You might have an ASP script that is executed before beginning the page output for each page. Insert this code into that ASP script.

Hope that helps

Hi Matt..!!

I tired with the above code, but it's not redirecting to www. Please help on this issue.

Thanks in advance.

[Harry]

Originally Posted by mahalakshmi.t

Hi Matt..!!

I tired with the above code, but it's not redirecting to www. Please help on this issue.

Thanks in advance.

What error message you are getting after using above code ?

[Dan]

Originally Posted by mahalakshmi.t

Hi Matt..!!

I tired with the above code, but it's not redirecting to www. Please help on this issue.

Thanks in advance.

Is ASP installed on the server you're using?

[biggysmall]

Hi all, this is my first post so I'm taking the opportunity to say hi to all of you.
btw, I've read the whole thread and there is only mention of the advantage of redirecting non-www to www domains. But what about the opposite?

1st the redirection is needed otherwise the search engines will see non-www and www domains as different domains which can cause a lower serps as its looks to the search engines as duplicate content.

At the moment I'm looking for some info on domains, I will post a thread if I couldn't find the answer, and during my research I realised that non-www domains are better. Why?

To rank high for a keyword it is better to have that keyword in the url as well as in you tags. But somethimes your keyword is too long and may not be shown in whole in search results. By removing www and the "." you will save 4 charts that you can use. This is not much but my help sometimes.

[IanSmithISA]

Good morning

What works for me is to goto Plesk and

1) Select Domains

2) Select the relevant domain

3) Select DNS Settings

4) Then add entries so that you get something similar to the attached picture.



Bye

Ian

[Hexosphere]

Hi Liveland

Take a look at this, How to set up a 301 Permanent Redirect - which gives various advice on how to setup a 301 based on the many different platforms that are available.

The answer inevitably lies with what kind of access you have to the Windows box, if you can access the desktop and IIS, then it's configurable from there.