backlinks question about www.

I purchased an expired domain with some back links when i use yahoo site explorer http://123.com it shows no back links but if i input http://www.123.com it will show the links do i need to do some sort of redirect or something to make sure i get the links to http://123.com.

I believe the new cannonical meta-tag is useful for this.

well if its showing no links to http://123.com, just make sure you have set http://www.123.com as you main domain in web master tools, and you have cannonical url set to http://www.123.com

I also encountered this kind of problem on where my boss renews our website and removed the www on the webpage, I lost all page ranks on Google.

i meet such problem,if i set the main domain,but no using the cannonical meta tag,is it useful?

Since you have backlinks in www., you should continue using with www. itself.

Search engines treat http:// and http://www. as different and they rank for these differently.

If you are using Wordpress site choose http://www.domain.com inside Wordpress control panel.

You can you use SEO friendly 301 redirection using htaccess file also.

One of my site is http:// and all other in http://www.
Why this one site in http:// is just because I never knew what this redirection and all is and I created backlinks to http:// and not http://. So if I am changing the site from http:// to http://www. it will definitely loose it's rankings. Which I dont want to happen.

Hope it gave you some ideas.

My suggestion. - Use as it is http://www.123.com . Also add a redirection from http://123.com to http://www.123.com.

Cheers.

Create a file named ".htaccess".

Then open it in notepad and paste below code.


In place of yourwebsite.com, use your website domain.

Then upload this file to your root directory.