Backlink question

[Whoo]

Currently I have a domain that works on both www.domain.com and domain.com. However I want to make it that whenever someone browses to any of the 2 listed above is always redirects to domain.com.

In short: My site will always be domain.com

I have several thousands of backlinks pointing to www.domain.com, will the change to only domain.com affect the backlinks in a negative way (the ones that point to www.domain.com)?

Regards,
Whoo

Whoo Reviewed by Whoo on 25th Jul 2010. Backlink question Currently I have a domain that works on both www.domain.com and domain.com. However I want to make it that whenever someone browses to any of the 2 listed above is always redirects to domain.com. In short: My site will always be domain.com I have several thousands of backlinks pointing to www.domain.com, will the change to only domain.com affect the backlinks in a negative way (the ones that point to www.domain.com)? Regards, Whoo Rating: 5

[bxflow]

add a new rule to .htaccess

[Whoo]

add a new rule to .htaccess

I have already added it to the .htaccess file but I have to know if it will affect the backlink count in the search engines?

[bxflow]

"This is good for the users who can choose wether or not to type in the "www." part. However, it is not good for search engines which will tend to see a lot of duplicate contents."


http://fplanque.com/dev/http-ssl/www...ls-mod_rewrite

[Whoo]

"This is good for the users who can choose wether or not to type in the "www." part. However, it is not good for search engines which will tend to see a lot of duplicate contents."


http://fplanque.com/dev/http-ssl/www...ls-mod_rewrite

I thought I made myself clear, I did a permanent 301 redirect in my .htaccess file. Yes I know search engines will see the www. version and the non-www. version as 2 different websites. I have also added the canonical link between the headers.

However I need to know if all the backlinks pointing to the www.domain.com will still count as a backlink for my site?

[bxflow]

sorry if im not giving you the correct answer but i found this on another forum, maybe it will answer your question...

Originally Posted by exeunt
if I create 301 permanent redirects to the one main domain, will backlinks to the old domains count towards the PageRank calculations of the main domain?

Eventually they will, but on Google it will take a while, probably about 6 to 9 months. For the past year and a half or so, Yahoo and MSN have been much faster than Google on this, but since Yahoo's update of about a month ago, I don't know whether they've introduced a delay as well.

I believe that the delay in recovery of rankings on Google is basically collateral damage in how Google is fighting network and link spam. It's too big a subject to handle in one post right now, but the aggregate effect is that most links take a while to be credited to a site, and redirects are suspect, and it takes time to come back from a redirect to a new domain.

You may be able to speed up the recovery of your rankings by getting those sites that link to your old domains to change their links in a timely fashion after you do your redirects.

[Mr Happy]

No whoo it won't. As far as I know search engines like Google are clever enough and can take that into account. You might have some small shitty search engine in Djibouti who'll struggle but I wouldn't worry about it. I can't imagine Djibouti sending you much traffic anyway.

The above quote from bxflow is from 2005 when most of the members here were still in diapers and search engines relied heavily on keywords.

[downpump]

Eventually they will, but on Google it will take a while, probably about 6 to 9 months. For the past year and a half or so, Yahoo and MSN have been much faster than Google on this, but since Yahoo's update of about a month ago, I don't know whether they've introduced a delay as well.

I believe that the delay in recovery of rankings on Google is basically collateral damage in how Google is fighting network and link spam. It's too big a subject to handle in one post right now, but the aggregate effect is that most links take a while to be credited to a site, and redirects are suspect, and it takes time to come back from a redirect to a new domain.

You may be able to speed up the recovery of your rankings by getting those sites that link to your old domains to change their links in a timely fashion after you do your redirects.

As said above,.... it may take time but you can use google webmaster tools to inform google about the change.. Then it will be much quicker!

[LaniXs]

go to your domain registrar bro.. and edit the settings.. i think its in forwarding section.. goodluck

[Crucify]

like Mr Happy said, if its a permanent redirect all your link juice automatically flows to the redirected domain name. This is also tested, by numerous sites...

Domain A was ranking on Page 1 for a strong keyword... when they shifted to Domain B they did a 301 redirect on Domain A and within a week Domain B was ranking number 1 for that same keyword. Your case is similar, but much more simpler.