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Well, the current PR update is over as far as i’m concerned. Most of my sites have move up one or two ranks and the subpages have also stepped up.

What disappoints me is this blog. A PR3, over 200 posts, over 16k backlinks according to yahoo.. (most of them from my own sites). I’ve also commented on other blogs and got backlinks that way, i’ve got a few technorati link exchanges..

It’s baffling as to how it can’t have gone up to a PR4 at least. But i suppose i took it for granted the PR would rise, so i must learn from this and start preparing for the next PR update in August/September.

I’ve already re-directed all no www’s to www.’s just to make sure google doesn’t get confused. I see a few of the high fliers doing this, so it obviously can’t hurt. So for example, if you enter ‘smemon.com’, you’ll be re-directed to http://www.smemon.com, where as before you’d simply have gotten ‘http://smemon.com’.

How do you do this? Simple. Add a snippet of code to your .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www.|$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

And that’s it. Don’t edit anything, just insert the above code and bob’s your uncle. With the next update, i’m not taking anything for granted.