use .htaccess, or pay the price..

Posted by smemon in Work on 05 17th, 2007 | Comments

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I noticed on tylercruz’s blog, he’s made a major mistake, and one that has cost him dearly in terms of PR.

Go to http://www.tylercruz.com and notice a healthy PR5

Now go to http://tylercruz.com and notice a PR4

So google is viewing his blog as at least two different sites and the pagerank proves this. This can be solved with a few lines of code.

I blogged about this a few weeks ago. I knew about it, but never implemented it as i thought it was just a myth. Once my PR didn’t increase, i said i was taking no chances from now on and i’d add re-directs pointing to www.

I assume Tyler doesn’t know about this, but then again maybe he has some reasoning behind it.. but from what i’ve gathered studying SEO and building blogs, this is a simple, but crucial change that needs to be made to maximise SEO and PR.

T.J.

For WordPress blogs there's an excellent plugin I use to do the same thing: http://www.justinshattuck.com/wordpress-www-red... It's a lot easier than messing with the .htaccess files.

Tyler Cruz

I know of it, but haven't researched it yet. I, too, am very wary of myths, especially when it comes to SEO.

I may research into this some more though.