Probably an Easy Solution, but I can't figure it out... Help please!

Hey Guys,

So I'm trying to rank for keyword X

I'm #4 for my keyword, and in the SERPS it shows up as:

TITLE
DESCRIPTION
mywebsite dot com

Now, I made 250+ backlinks to my site, but for some reason they only show relevance to:

TITLE
DESCRIPTION
www dot mywebsite dot com

The difference is the folder with the www and the one without. I understand that SE's will read them differently, but how to I make it so that the 250+ backlinks for www dot mywebsite dot com work for mywebsite.com

or even better:

How do i make www dot mywebsite dot com come up as a listing.


I appreciate your time

Not exactly sure which way you are wanting to go.

You can set the display in G from within G webmaster tools.

Otherwise, the following will forward yourDomain . com to www . yourDomain . com

For the website, use a .htaccess file in the root public-html directory. Mine looks like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourDomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yourDomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The above will forward everything to www . yourdomain . com - you can reverse it to send everything to http // yourDomain .com

I continue and forward my index.php (you can do this for index.html also) to the www . yourDomain .com also:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]+/)*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

If you have index.html change php above to html...

usually folders that have for example: folder.website.com will show up as that other then http://www.folder.website.com

Helps?

Hey THANKS!

Quick question:

My site is on a " Add On Domain" on a main Root Domain

Do I just add the htaccess to the add on domain main folder

WebInvestor said:

My site is on a " Add On Domain" on a main Root Domain

Do I just add the htaccess to the add on domain main folder

Click to expand...

That sounds right but you'll have to try it to be sure...I don't run add on domains as I have a reseller account.