Joomla/ google and www.
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- aggieoutlaw
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When I search for my site on google.. the WWW. does not show up.. it shows up as http://{sitename}.com ???
Is there a SEO extension i should use?
Thanks
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- Tyndie
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Add this rule to your htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
Also add this too for seo purposes:
Redirect 301 /home http://www.domain.com
Change the domain.com to your domain name.
Also a couple of other things that are good for seo:
Install XMAP from JED and set up a sitemap, then in htaccess add:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/sitemap.xml RewriteRule .* /index.php?option=com_xmap&view=xml&no_html=1
and then in robots.txt add at the top so it is:
Make sure there is an extra carriage space beween the site map command and the user agent command. Also change domain.com to your domain again. Then, google, yahoo, msn, ask etc will pick up your sitemap when they come calling.Sitemap: http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml User-agent: *
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- Rob Went
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I've just added this to all my sites and everything works fine with the redirects, but when I try to get into the backend I enter the username and password and the page just refreshes and clears the username and password fields.
Any idea what i've done wrong? - http://www.robertwent.com
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- Rob Went
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- Rob Went
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- what was the problem?
- http://www.robertwent.com
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- Tyndie
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- you had an a condition in your htaccess that you didnt need, which was interfering with the administrator login page. i overwrote your htaccess with a fresh one, using the www fixes in this thread.
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- Rob Went
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- brilliant, thanks for the help!
- http://www.robertwent.com
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- Ben Lee
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Some good info right from Google!
If you sign up for their webmaster tools, you can designate how you want them to display your url in search results. The .htaccess was a need to do thing anyways...this is just the extra stuff if you want.
Canonicalization
To gain more control over how your URLs appear in search results, and to consolidate properties, such as link popularity, we recommend that you pick a canonical (preferred) URL as the preferred version of the page. You can indicate your preference to Google in a number of ways. We recommend them all, though none of them is required (if you don't indicate a canonical URL, we'll identify what we think is the best version)...
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