Improve your index pages pagerank

**Sean** · 08-20-2007, 08:26 AM

Most people dont realise that when u dont have your .htaccess file setup properly for incoming links u can have 2 different page ranks for your domain.

for example:

Code:

http://www.bluepearl-design.com

Code:

http://bluepearl-design.com

May have different page ranks even though their the same page. Google will even sometimes penalise you for double content

Here is a way to use the .htaccess file so that all URLs resolve to just one domain. Please note this is for Apache servers

Code:

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

The first line turns on the rewrite engine so the code will work

The second line checks to see if current host is TRUE or FALSE

The third line is pretty much the same as the 2nd, these lines are testing to see what the current host is.

The fourth line is executed if the previous two conditions return TRUE

I hope this tutorial is helpful for members

Also because i have spent alot of time in the last few months optimising my sites for SEO, studying online books, reading SEO forums i have become pretty knowledgeable with web site SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) im going to create a new category on these forums for members who would like to ask questions or get advice on how to better improve their sites traffic.

**Sean** · 08-23-2007, 01:48 AM

Here is the code to rewrite all incoming links to 'domain.com/index.php' or domain.com/index.html' to domain.com

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} "T /index.php"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule .* http://www.bluepearl-design.com/? [L,R=301]

This code used with the code in the first post will cause all incoming links to

Code:

http://domain.com
domain.com
http://www.domain.com/index.html
http://domain.php

to all point to

Code:

http://www.domain.com

This will increase your pagerank because google will not have to divide the pagerank between all the various different domains that point to the same page.

**Watcher** · 08-23-2007, 02:29 AM

thats cool!!! i was wondering how to get my address to be the same, did not know how to use the .htaccess thing, and still do not till i play with it
never could figure out why it did not have the www. in front of it, thanks

**Sean** · 08-23-2007, 03:22 AM

np dude, and remember to always upload the .htaccess file in Binary

**Fragalot** · 08-23-2007, 04:24 AM

nice work

**Sean** · 08-27-2007, 06:49 PM

Google is very close to doing the next pagerank, hopefully the pagerank of the front page of Bluepearl Design will go from PR4 to PR5 after this change, i will keep everyone informed

The forums usually jump from PR3 to PR4 and back to PR3 with most pageranks updates, im also hoping this will jump to PR5 as the /forums/index.php is PR3 atm.

Currently the PR for the /forums/ is 0 because i changed the rewrite on my URL's to be more keyword effective. Unfortunately that dropped all the Pageranks on my forum pages to PR0, they should rise in the next PR update or next one (within 6 months)

**Chance4Today** · 10-31-2007, 03:12 PM

OK call my azzz little silly but how do ya know if you have appache server

**Sean** · 10-31-2007, 06:49 PM

Well because your hosted with me, i can tell u you have

This page has a pagerank of PR2

**Chance4Today** · 11-01-2007, 06:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sean

Here is the code to rewrite all incoming links to 'domain.com/index.php' or domain.com/index.html' to domain.com

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} "T /index.php"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule .* http://www.bluepearl-design.com/? [L,R=301]

This code used with the code in the first post will cause all incoming links to

Code:

http://domain.com
domain.com
http://www.domain.com/index.html
http://domain.php

to all point to

Code:

http://www.domain.com

This will increase your pagerank because google will not have to divide the pagerank between all the various different domains that point to the same page.

OK where does this code go in the same access as the other one or ?

I tried to put it in the index php and kept getting error messages.

**Sean** · 11-01-2007, 07:59 AM

this file goes in your root folder for example /public_html/ but dont save it in your index.php file.

Create a txt file on your pc called htaccess.txt and add the above content into it (changing the url's

) then upload the file to your server. Once on your server rename the file to .htaccess.