the difference between http:// and http://www

[FLN]

is there really much of a difference between http://www.site.com and http://site.com . I heard they are read as two different sites by the search engines, and each can have their own pr. I would just like to know for sure.

[Kasami2k4]

Yeah there is :/ somethin yu can do with htaccess file to make them the same though

[Graphic Addict]

Ya, for instance, if I am in my AOL browser, and type pogo.com it takes me to aol games, but if I type http://www.pogo it takes me to the real site :/ weird huh??

[Andrew2]

wowsers :( did not know that.

[FLN]

yeah, thats weird vanessa.. ty for the quick replies :)

[mrs brightside]

You have to do a 301 Redirect.

Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all requests coming in to domain.com will get redirected to www.domain.com
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Please REPLACE domain.com and www.newdomain.com with your actual domain name.

Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

[FLN]

thank you mrs brightside :) I guess i should get to doing that *green*

[minnseoelite]

as far as rankings in don't matter which one you use. but you should do a 301 redirect to avoid a duplicate content penalty in the search engines as they are viewed as separate pages