Redirect 301 to Double Your Backlinks
Is your domain address starting with http://www. or http://…? If you are not sure and never heard of this can affect your ranking, then you should probably losing some value. Just use any backlink checker tool or Websitegrader and check how many backlinks you get for http://atniz.com and http://www.atniz.com (replace “atniz” with your domain). In most cases you will be able to see some backlinks in both type of domains. We can’t control the way people link to us. Some may give www or without www. The problem is google look at http:// and http://www. as two different URL.
So, if you have equally same number of backlinks pointing to both URL, you may lose half of the backlink benefits. I don’t have to explain how important a backlink to our site is. You can get all your backlink value using 301 redirect. Choose any type of your preferred domain and redirect the other URL. This will help to accumulate all backlink value to one URL which is supposed to be. You can notice some difference in SERP ranking within days or weeks. But, of course it all depends on the quality of your backlinks.
Link building needs a lot of work and time but quality contents gets your organic links. Those who benefited from you will recommend your URL in forums, blogs, websites, etc. Organic backlinks often comes from related contents and have high value in SEO. We can’t assume or have control over those who gives backlink to include www or without www. But, we can control our backlink value to point one URL.
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September 5th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I have my blog using 301 and if you enter the address of the blog with the www it will go straight to the address without it, also on other sites I run I do the same sort of thing and it does help with rankings..
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Atniz Reply:
September 10th, 2009 at 7:37 am
That’s wonderful. I’m sure you are not going to lose any backlink value there.
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September 5th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
I have mine set to non-www via .htaccess and also in google’s webmaster tools – Preferred domain.
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Atniz Reply:
September 10th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Good to see that you have done it precisely. Sure you won’t lose a bit of your backlinks.
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September 5th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
I have my own domain but I don’t have hosting hence I can’t use this redirection right? =(
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Atniz Reply:
September 10th, 2009 at 7:51 am
I have never tried on free domain before. I noticed that you have private domain running without any ads.
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September 5th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
I’ve never heard a such software/tool before.it must be the newest tool,right?Or It’s because i’m a newbie..:) But it will be a very useful software I think.By the way, i really thank you for your post especially “How to build 100,000 DoFollow Backlinks in 8 Weeks?”..It’s very very great and really help me since i’m struggling to get back link to improve my PR.once again..thx for a gret post..Good luck..
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Atniz Reply:
September 10th, 2009 at 7:53 am
Thanks Hery. It was a long time I wrote that post. Good to hear you like it. As for redirect, it is common and not new. Don’t worry, we all learn new things each day.
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September 6th, 2009 at 5:18 am
Thank you very much for the information! With just a couple of searches I found out how to setup the 301 redirect.I ran the report and about half of my backlinks were on www and the other half were not.
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Atniz Reply:
September 10th, 2009 at 7:55 am
It is common. I’m sure you will gain back all your backlink value to one point with 301 redirect. Good luck!
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September 7th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Yah, you right. I will do some redirect in my .htaccess for it.
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Atniz Reply:
September 10th, 2009 at 7:57 am
Good luck with 301.
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September 7th, 2009 at 5:29 am
yes its really great to do redirect to your web site to get back link.this is well written on 301.
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Atniz Reply:
September 10th, 2009 at 8:00 am
Exactly. There are many people still unaware of 301.
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September 7th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
If anyone is using Wordpress, be sure to check the header status of the built in redirects like new permalinks or no / to /. For some reason, WP is using a 302 redirect and this can prevent Google from combining the links and URLs. I just noticed this one last week or so!
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Atniz Reply:
September 10th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Thanks for the notification. I never come across this problem yet.
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September 9th, 2009 at 11:18 am
I don’t think its that much important , after all how many backlinks we will be loosing by not doing such thing.
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Atniz Reply:
September 10th, 2009 at 9:10 am
For some domains, it is almost half. That is about 50% lost there.
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September 10th, 2009 at 5:42 am
I set mine with www.
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Atniz Reply:
September 10th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Great! I’m sure you won’t lose a bit of your backlink value.
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September 10th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I think Google Webmaster Help has a feature that let you set which to prefer to use www or non-www and thru that G can easily count your number of links correctly. But that is Google, Yahoo and Bing are different story and just to be safe, your advice of tweaking the .htaccess or implementing 301 will be more advisable indeed.
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 2:41 am
You are right. Google have the tool in google webmaster that allows us to choose www or without www. The most preferred way is to use 301 redirection manually.
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September 11th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Well, I never knew that they were ranked differently! We had a http://www site before we came to wordpress, and now it’s just http:. I don’t know enough to check permalinks because there’s all kinds of stuff on that page that I don’t understand, so whether it’s 301 or not I have no idea.
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 4:05 am
I suggest you to goto google webmaster and select your preferred URL either with or without www.
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